Grant v. State

Beasley, Judge.

Defendant appeals his convictions of burglary, OCGA § 16-7-1, and kidnapping, OCGA § 16-5-40.

1. The first enumeration of error is that the trial court erred in overruling defendant’s objection to the State’s indirectly using his prior unrelated convictions against him. Defendant was accused of breaking into a house and kidnapping his former girl friend. The victim and witnesses for the State who were relatives of the victim and resided in the same household testified that in the early morning hours, defendant entered without authorization and forced the victim at knife point to…