State v. Hahn

PREWITT, Judge.

Defendant was convicted of stealing a revolver and sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail for one year. He presents two points relied on for our consideration.

Defendant contends that the trial judge erred by allowing in evidence a statement of defendant admitting that he took a revolver from a motel office where C. Porter Myers worked because there was not a sufficient showing that a crime had been committed independent of his statement.

Myers testified that he was manager of a motel and in the lobby of the motel kept a revolver belonging to him “in my desk in a little…