United States Tenth Circuit

In a first-degree murder case where the defendant claimed voluntary intoxication, the failure to allow expert witness to testify on the effects of intoxication was harmless error given testimony that the defendant was alert and provided police with detailed description of the murder soon after the event.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/26/2001
• Published 10/26/2001

Judges

• BRISCOE, Circuit Judge., Before EBEL, HENRY, and BRISCOE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James L. Hankins,Hankins Law Office, Enid, OK, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert L. Whittaker, Assistant Attorney General (W.A. Drew Edmondson, Attorney General, with him on the brief), Oklahoma City, OK, for the appellee.