State v. Jones

REINHARD, Presiding Judge.

Defendant appeals from a conviction of Forcible Rape, Robbery First Degree and Armed Criminal Action. The jury assessed punishment at ten years, five years, and five years respectively, the sentences to run consecutively. Defendant assigns error in the trial court’s denial of a mistrial after the testimony of one of the investigating policemen allegedly containing prejudicial evidence of another crime. We affirm.

The prosecutrix testified that while walking home on November 16, 1976, a man approached her, put a screw driver to her side, and told her to walk with him.…