Carroll v. State

Smith, Judge.

The appellants were convicted of burglary after a jury trial. Their appeal contends the trial court erred in allowing the state to use argumentative questions on cross examination of one appellant and in allowing the state to introduce evidence of a prior burglary conviction. With the latter contention we agree, and the judgment is reversed.

1. On cross examination of one appellant, the state inquired, with reference to one of the appellant’s explanations of what had transpired, whether it was just "chance or coincidence” that events had happened that *797way. The trial court allowed…