State v. Carriker

Appellant, Michael E. Carriker, and a co-defendant were convicted of armed robbery. Appellant was sentenced .to imprisonment for twenty-one (21) years.

Appellant charges that the trial judge erred in refusing to permit cross-examinaton of a key State’s witness concerning a prior conviction of the witness for possession of stimulant drugs without a prescription and in refusing to permit inquiry into the fact that the witness was on probation and owed a fine to the State as a result of that prior conviction. The question raised by the first point is whether the mere possession of stimulant drugs…