Coates v. State

DICKSON, Justice.

In a jury trial defendant Jimmy Coates was convicted of burglary, robbery and rape for which he received concurrent sentences of ten years, five years and fourteen years respectively. We regroup the many issues raised in the defendant’s direct appeal as follows: 1) dismissal of additional charge; 2) vindictive prosecution; 3) change of judge; 4) suppression of confession; 5) instruction on voluntariness of confession; 6) instruction on motive; 7) in-court identification; 8) limitation of cross-examination; 9) variance between information and evidence; 10) sufficiency of…