Martin v. State

BLACKBURN, Presiding Judge.

Following a jury trial, Kenneth Lanza Martin appeals his conviction on two counts of theft by receiving, 1 challenging the sufficiency of the evidence and arguing that the trial court erred in excluding a misdemeanor shoplifting conviction for impeachment purposes against a State’s witness, and erred in giving a jury charge that the jury “should acquit” Martin if it had a reasonable doubt as to his guilt. We hold that circumstantial evidence showed that Martin knew the goods were stolen, that misdemeanor theft convictions were available for impeachment purposes only…