State v. Hodges

CROCKETT, Justice:

Jeffrey Lynn Hodges seeks to reverse his convictions by a jury of the crimes of robbery and assault with a deadly weapon committed at the Egyptian Theater in Ogden on the night of May 12, 1972. His contention is that the prosecuting attorney improperly asked questions concerning his involvement in another crime which so prejudiced the jury against him that he was deprived of a fair trial.

On the evening mentioned a man (later identified as the defendant) approached the cashier’s cage of the theater, pulled a pistol out of a sack and demanded the money. The cashier, Carolyn…