State v. Haynes

HILL, Judge.

The trial court permitted Officer Johnson to identify certain papers which had been removed from defendant’s billfold at the time of arrest and to testify as to their contents. The officer read the words “345 decimal plus 1 gram” and “Coke,” which were written on one of the papers. Later the court allowed the exhibits into evidence. The exhibits and testimony offered by the officer tended to show defendant’s disposition to deal in drugs. In his first assignment of error defendant contends this evidence was immaterial and had the sole effect of inciting the prejudice of the jury.…