State v. Cash

The issue before this court is whether a prior conviction may be used for impeachment purposes, pursuant to Evid. R. 609(A), even though sentence has not been pronounced on that conviction. We hold that such a conviction may be used for impeachment purposes.

Evid. R. 609(A) states:

*118“For the purpose of attacking the credibility of a witness, evidence that he has been convicted of a crime shall be admitted if elicited from him or established by public record during cross-examination but only if the crime (1) was punishable by death or imprisonment in excess of one year under the law under which…