State v. Jackson

ANSTEAD, Judge.

This is an appeal by the state from a post-conviction order reducing the appel-lee’s life sentence to time served plus three years probation. We reverse.

Calvin Jackson was convicted of rape and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1975. Thereafter, he filed an appeal, alleging among other points that the trial court had erred in allowing a police officer “to testify as to the contents of a B.O.L.O., to the effect that a black male in green pants was dragging a white female into the bushes.” 1 Subsequently, in a notice signed by Jackson himself, the appeal was voluntarily…