Clements v. State

BLACKBURN, Presiding Judge.

Following a jury trial, Belinda Clements appeals her conviction of theft by shoplifting (felony), 1 arguing that the trial court erred in precluding her from impeaching a State witness with a prior misdemeanor conviction for theft by conversion, and in denying her motion for new trial that asserted ineffective assistance of counsel. Discerning no error, we affirm.

Construed in favor of the verdict, Davis v. State, 2 the evidence shows that Clements and two female relatives visited a local Wal-Mart store, where a Wal-Mart security employee saw them stuff goods into…