Nooner v. State

Clark, Judge.

This appeal from a burglary conviction contains two enumerations of error.

1. The first assignment contends the court erred in not granting motions for mistrial which were made when testimony of a state’s witness during direct examination by the district attorney elicited the fact of a prior conviction and placed the accused’s character in question.

This testimony came from an alleged accomplice who was a material witness for the state. He was a 17-year-old youngster who together with another 16-year-old youth had been hitchhiking when they were picked up by the defendant in South…