State v. Brown

PREWITT, Chief Judge.

Following jury trial, defendant was convicted of felony stealing and sentenced as a prior offender to four years’ imprisonment. She was identified by two witnesses as having taken a television set from a Wal-Mart Store in Nevada without the store’s consent.

On appeal she contends that the trial judge erred in refusing to allow a defense witness, Debra Butler, to testify that there was a person in Nevada “who looks exactly” like defendant. In the offer of proof Butler testified that the woman “looks so much like Terri, she has her nose and everything”. Butler said that the…