Utah Supreme Court May 3, 1972, 12480 (State v. Redford)

ELLETT, Justice:

The defendant was convicted by a jury of the crime of murder in the first degree without any recommendation of leniency and was sentenced to death. He appeals, claiming the trial court committed reversible error in four particulars, to wit:

I. By admitting evidence of a prior assault by appellant upon a person other than the victim herein.

II.