Poore v. State

OPINION

ROBERTS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of robbery by assault and was assessed a punishment of five years’ confinement.

Appellant complains of the court’s granting of the State’s motion in limine prohibiting the introduction of a shoplifting conviction against the State’s main witness for impeachment purposes. The issue joined is whether or not the claims by the witness himself that the conviction was later set aside are competent to establish that the conviction was not final and therefore could not be used for impeachment.

We are met at the outset with the threshold question of whether…