Rogers v. State

¶ 33. While I agree with the majority’s decision to affirm Rogers’s armed-robbery conviction, I must respectfully dissent from the majority’s decision to affirm Rogers’s conviction for the unlawful possession of a firearm. In my opinion, the State failed to prove Rogers’s prior-felony status by either a stipulation, a certified record of a prior felony conviction, or other evidence adduced through a witness during the evidence phase of Rogers’s trial. Therefore, there is insufficient evidence to sustain his conviction of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. I would reverse and render…