Jackson v. State

M. Steele Hays, Judge.

Appellant was charged by felony information with robbery and theft of property. On May 25, 1979, he was tried without a jury and convicted on both counts. He received a thirty year sentence on the charge of robbery and fifteen years on the charge of theft of property. He now brings this appeal.

Appellant first contends that the trial court erred in allowing certain testimony of the State’s chief witness, Ms. Lillian Counts, on the basis that it was inadmissible as hearsay testimony. Specifically, he alleges that Ms. Counts’s testimony concerning an unidentified woman who…