Dumas v. State

BOWEN W. SIMMONS, Retired Circuit Judge.

Appellant-defendant, represented here and at nisi prius by employed counsel, was indicted for robbery, convicted by a jury which fixed punishment at twelve years imprisonment.

The only asserted error is the failure of the prosecution to inform the defendant, pursuant to a pre-trial motion therefor, that a key witness for the State had on a previous occasion (1953) been convicted in Jefferson County of burglary — an offense involv*318ing moral turpitude. Appellant contends that such alleged conviction was not known to him until right after the trial and…