State v. Kenneth Eastwood

Syllabus

Kenneth H. Eastwood appeals his murder conviction. The sole issue is whether the trial court erred in refusing to allow Eastwood to present evidence that, shortly before he confessed to killing the victim, he had taken a polygraph test and police told him he had failed. Eastwood sought to elicit this evidence to support his defense that his confession was false. We hold the trial court erred in excluding the polygraph evidence but find the error did not affect the jury's verdict. We therefore affirm his conviction.