Ewing v. State

I cannot agree that admission of evidence showing appellant had twice been picked up by police officers for suspicion of burglary is “a question of tactics” in light of the record here presented. On direct examination Officer Cashion testified the license number relayed by Hart was checked out. He said, “We called the burglary and theft division that we had the car picked up approximately four days prior to that”. The failure to object to this statement would not be sufficient to support a finding that trial counsel was ineffective. See Long v. State, supra. However, the details were then…