Williams v. State

LEIGH M. CLARK, Supernumerary Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction of robbery. Defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for thirteen years in accordance with the verdict of the jury.

In urging that the judgment should be reversed, appellant directs his contentions exclusively to the action of the trial court in admitting into evidence, over the objections of defendant, testimony to the effect that defendant had been convicted of the crime of sodomy. This testimony of defendant himself was admitted after he had taken the stand as a witness in his own behalf and…