Reeves v. State

The defendant was convicted for robbery in the first degree and sentenced as an habitual offender to life imprisonment without parole.

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The defendant argues that the trial judge erred in refusing to allow defense counsel to cross examine the two victims about a civil suit they had filed against county officials for permitting the defendant's escape from county jail.

On February 11, 1982, the defendant and two other inmates, William Dale Jaeger and Kenneth White, overpowered a guard and escaped from the Morgan County Jail. They stole a county truck and drove to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy…