Ruth v. State

OPINION

ODOM, Judge.

The appellant was convicted of murder; punishment was assessed at fifteen years.

Several grounds of error are raised pertaining to placing the appellant’s juvenile offenses before the jury. The record is replete with questions by the prosecutor both stating and eliciting the specific nature of offenses allegedly committed by the appellant as a juvenile and the arrests and dispositions in those cases.

At the guilt-innocence stage of the trial, the prosecutor elicited testimony that the appellant had been charged as a juvenile at *518age 14 with assault on a police officer.1 The…