State v. Byers

Ness, Justice:

Appellant, Michael Wayne Byers, was convicted of armed robbery. He asserts the trial court erred in allowing the State to introduce evidence of his guilty plea to a subsequent crime. We disagree and affirm.

Byers was charged with armed robbery of a cab driver near the James Island Shopping Center in Charleston, South Carolina. The cab driver gave a description of Byers to the police based on their face to face confrontation during the robbery.

Three days after the robbery the cab driver returned to the scene to look for his wallet which he thought had been thrown out of the car…