Cooper v. State

Birdsong, Chief Judge.

Dale Cooper was convicted of armed robbery and sentenced to serve 14 years. He does not contest the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict or judgment nor could he, for there is sufficient probative evidence to convince any rational jury beyond reasonable doubt of Cooper’s guilt of the armed robbery charged. Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U. S. 307 (99 SC 2781, 61 LE2d 560). Cooper however raises a question of error in the use of certain prior arrests by the State in an effort to impeach the testimony of the defendant, Cooper. Cooper’s defense was that a casual…