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Howard v. State

Certified copies of the defendant's 2003 and 2006 domestic violence convictions and testimony from police officers were sufficient proof of the crimes to support admitting the convictions into evidence as similar transactions.

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Following a jury trial, James Howard was found guilty of four counts of aggravated assault family violence, one count of cruelty to children in the first degree, two counts of possession of a weapon during the commission of a crime, two counts of attempted murder and two counts of aggravated battery family violence.1 He filed a motion for new trial, which the trial court denied, and then the present appeal. He now argues that the trial court erred by admitting evidence of similar transactions and that the trial court should have granted a mistrial because of prosecutorial misconduct. Having carefully considered his claims of error, we now affirm.

Although Howard does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence to support his convictions, we will briefly summarize that evidence here. As the State aptly puts it, Howard and Tasha Taylor had been involved in a “tumultuous relationship” and there had been incidents of physical confrontations between them in the past. Howard and Taylor had lived together at one point, but Howard eventually moved out. Taylor’s children, including her youngest twelve-year-old daughter A. H., also lived in the home and A. H. had interceded on previous occasions when Howard and Taylor would argue, and Howard had previously threatened both A. H. and Taylor.

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