Fears v. State

Hill, Justice.

The defendant Brady Fears appeals his conviction of armed robbery and sentence to eight years imprisonment.

1. The testimony of the victim of an armed robbery a year earlier showed sufficient similarities between the two robberies to make the earlier robbery relevant as to the identity of the defendant. Hicks v. State, 232 Ga. 393, 396 (207 SE2d 30) (1974). Regarding the time lapse between the two, see Campbell v. State, 234 Ga. 130 (214 SE2d 656) (1975). In the case of Bacon v. State, 209 Ga. 261 (71 SE2d 615) (1952), relied on by the defendant, the state erroneously introduced…