State v. Morales

BERNSTEIN, Justice.

An information was filed against appellant and another in the Superior Court, Pima County, charging them with robbing a bartender at the El Sudan Bar, near Tucson, Arizona, in violation of A.R.S. §§ 13-641 and 13-643.

The case was tried three times. In the first trial, the Judge of the Superior Court decreed a mistrial because of the admission of a record of a misdemeanor conviction in a ' California court, introduced by the State for impeachment purposes. ■ In the second trial evidence ’of this misdemeanor conviction was not used and the jury was unable to agree.

At the…