Johnson v. State

The defendant appeals from his convictions for assault as a lesser included offense of strong arm robbery, and battery as a lesser included offense of false imprisonment. He argues that the trial court erred in overruling his hearsay objection to the responding officer’s testimony recounting the victim’s and the victim’s friend’s descriptions of the defendant on the night of the incident, which testimony corroborated the victim’s and the victim’s friend’s trial testimony describing the defendant on the night of the incident. We conclude the court erred in overruling the defendant’s hearsay…