McCravy v. State

Appellant was convicted of armed robbery and has appealed. He has enumerated two errors in this court, both of which relate to the trial judge’s charge to the jury.

Appellant’s first contention is that the trial court committed error by wrongfully charging the jury that one of the three elements of witness impeachment was "... proof of his or her conviction of a felony” when the appellant attempted to impeach a witness by evidence of her conviction of a misdemeanor. No exception was made to the charge at the trial, and in the context in which the impeachment of the witness by the appellant…