State v. Bryant

WELLS, Judge.

In one of his assignments of error, defendant contends that the trial court erred in allowing the State to cross-examine defendant as to the details of a prior conviction. The following excerpt from the record provides the basis for this assignment:

Q. What have you been tried and convicted of, Mr. Bryant?

A. I have been tried and convicted of a felony.

Q. What felony?

A. What do you mean?

Q. What felony was it that you were convicted of exactly, sir?

A. For stealing a radio out of a police station at Pilot Mountain.

Q. Stealing a radio out of a police station?

A. Yes, sir.

Q. Did you go…