State v. Arledge

SWANSTROM, Judge.

A jury found Douglas Arledge guilty of aggravated assault, second degree kidnapping, misdemeanor battery, and the use of a firearm in the commission of a crime. He was given concurrent sentences, the longest of which — for the kidnapping — was twenty-five years with a ten-year minimum period of incarceration. On appeal, Ar-ledge contends the district judge erred: (1) by allowing the state to reveal to the jury that he had two prior felony convictions, (2) by admitting into evidence a written statement of a defense witness which referred to Arledge having been in jail, (3) by…