Lawson v. State

OTT, Judge.

The State charged appellant with the commission of three robberies. He received a separate trial on each charge, and all three trials ended in a finding of guilty as charged. We have consolidated these three cases on appeal and we find merit in appellant’s argument that the court erred in allowing testimony of collateral crimes during the third trial. We reverse that conviction; otherwise, we affirm.

At the third trial the witness testified that appellant and another man robbed and shot him as he sat in his used car office. During cross-examination the following exchange occurred:

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