Calloway v. Texas Employers' Insurance Ass'n

DIES, Chief Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation suit. A jury found plaintiff (the parties are hereafter referred to as they were below) did not receive an injury. From a take-nothing judgment, plaintiff perfects this appeal.

During the trial the court admitted in evidence a judgment of conviction of plaintiff for felony theft dated November 3, 1958. This was on a hot check charge for which plaintiff received a two-year probated sentence. The trial court also permitted defendant to elicit from plaintiff that in the year of the trial (1972) four more hot check charges were filed against…