Weston v. State

Ruffin, Judge.

Appellant, Joseph Weston, was tried and convicted of possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute. At trial, the State moved to introduce evidence of Weston’s two prior convictions for selling cocaine. The trial court denied the motion and specifically instructed Weston that he was not to go into the convictions regardless of what the State asked him. Despite this warning, Weston testified that he had been in jail for two years during the following cross-examination: “Q. About how much [money] would you make. . . ? A. . . . Sometimes I might bring home $500, sometimes . .…