McCroskey v. State

George Rose Smith, Justice.

McCroskey was charged with aggravated robbery, theft, and habitual criminalism with three prior felony convictions. In the second stage of a two-step trial the prosecutor and defense counsel stipulated that McCroskey had been convicted of burglary in 1972, of escape in 1973, and of robbery in 1973. The stipulation did not show that McCroskey had been represented by counsel in the earlier cases. He was not asked if he agreed to the stipulation, and there is no other evidence of the convictions in the record. The jury returned a verdict form reciting that McCroskey…