Chambers v. State

The defendant was indicted and convicted for theft of property in the first degree. Alabama Code 1975, Section13A-8-3 (Amended 1977). Sentence was two years and six months' imprisonment.

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The substance of the defendant's only allegation of error is that the trial court erred in allowing the State to claim surprise and cross examine its own witness, Mrs. Willie Mae Chambers, the mother of the defendant.

The record shows that, before trial, the Assistant District Attorney had learned that Mrs. Chambers had given renditions of the subject of her testimony different from and inconsistent with the…