Combs v. State

John F. Stroud, Justice.

Appellant was convicted by a jury of being a felon in possession of a firearm and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. He appeals, alleging that the trial court should have granted a mistrial due to the prosecutor’s misconduct, should have excluded proof of the nature of his prior felony, and should have suppressed the firearm from introduction into evidence. We find no reversible error and affirm the conviction.

On March 29, 1979, two officers of the North Little Rock Police Department in separate cars went to a motel in response to a call that a woman was being held…