Garrett v. State

Deen, Presiding Judge.

1. A witness for the state, one of the victims of the theft, was giving testimony on direct as to how she identified the appellant as the perpetrator. It was her testimony that she had been told that the thief "looked like” the appellant and that she "read in the paper that Freddie Garrett had a trial coming up, and I was determined to come up and see what he looked like” and that she identified the appellant as the thief "up here in the courtroom.” The appellant moved for a mistrial after this testimony, urging that his character had been put into evidence by the state.…