Pearce v. State

BRETT, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiff in Error, Ivan Ellis Pearce, hereafter referred to as defendant, was charged by amended information in the District Court of Cleveland County with the crime of Robbery with firearms, after former conviction of a felony. On February 20, 1968, defendant’s trial was conducted in a two-stage proceeding, and the jury’s verdict was returned the same day. At the conclusion of the first stage of the trial for the charge of Armed Robbery, the jury returned a verdict of guilty. In the second stage of the trial the district attorney attempted to prove defendant’s former…