Jackson v. State

Birdsong, Judge.

Thomas Irby Jackson and Jerome Denton were jointly indicted, tried and convicted in Hancock County for two counts of receiving stolen property. They enumerate four errors below. Held:

1. The trial court’s failure to charge that a witness could be impeached by proof of his conviction of a felony or a crime involving moral turpitude, was not reversible error.

The state’s case-in-chief came from the thief who stole the truck, welder, and tools from two shops in Washington and McDuffie Counties. On direct examination, the state elicited testimony from the thief that he was serving a…