Varnadore v. State

COBB, Judge.

In this case the issue is whether the trial court’s refusal to give the defendant’s requested special limiting instruction at the time the state elicited admissions of prior felony convictions constituted harmful error.

At the end of the state’s cross-examination, the defendant admitted three prior felony convictions. Defense counsel thereupon requested an immediate instruction to the jury to the effect that evidence of prior convictions was to be considered only in relation to the believability of the defendant as a witness and was not to be considered as evidence of guilt of the…