Owens v. State

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

Dennis Owens appeals his conviction for three separate sales of cocaine to undercover agents, charged in three special presentments. He enumerates four errors below. Held’.

1. The trial court did not err in denying appellant’s motion for mistrial, which he made on grounds that the State impermissibly introduced his character in evidence by giving evidence of his prior cocaine sale convictions. This evidence was properly introduced to rebut appellant’s statement at trial that “I don’t mess around with no drugs.” Appellant contends that proof that he had messed with…