State v. Estlick

Defendant was charged with the crime of obtaining money by false pretenses in violation of OBS 165.205.① He was convicted following a jury trial and placed on probation for a period of three years. This appeal raises two assignments of error. First, defendant contends that the trial court erred in allowing the state to rehabilitate and sustain the credibility of one of its principal witnesses in its direct examination before the defendant had attempted to impeach him. Second, defendant contends that the court erred *290in permitting evidence to be introduced of crimes similar in nature to the…