Reeves v. State

Benham, Justice.

Appellant Robert Lee Reeves, Jr., was sentenced, to life imprisonment upon the jury’s verdict finding him guilty of felony murder predicated upon aggravated assault. The trial court denied appellant’s motion for new trial brought on the ground of insufficiency of the evidence and on the ground that evidence of a prior attempted rape for which he was previously convicted was improperly admitted as a similar transaction. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm.

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