Cook v. State

Pope, Judge.

Appellant Jerry DeWayne Rice, a/k/a Jerry DeWayne Cook, was charged with the offenses of armed robbery and theft by bringing stolen property into the state. The evidence showed that appellant and a co-defendant traveled to Georgia in a car taken from its owner in Tennessee. The owner of the car was allowed to testify over the objection of both defendants that appellant stabbed him and the co-defendant hit him in the head and drove off in his car after he had agreed to give them a ride home from a bar. The defendants drove the car south on 1-75 and stopped at a convenience store in…