State v. Spears

CARTER, Judge.

Defendant Charles Henry Spears appeals his conviction by jury verdict of robbery in the second degree in violation of sections 711.1 and 711.3, The Code. He asserts on appeal that he should have been granted a directed verdict, because there was insufficient evidence to sustain a necessary element of the offense. He also assigns as error the trial court’s allowance of evidence of a prior felony conviction for impeachment purposes when that conviction was not yet complete, having been reduced to verdict but not to judgment and sentence. We affirm.

The evidence at trial showed that…