Varner v. State

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

Donald Varner appeals his conviction of armed robbery. He raises, as reversible error, the State’s injection into evidence of the fact that one of appellant’s co-defendants, who did not testify at trial, had pled guilty to the same offense (see Boatwright v. State, 193 Ga. App. 141 (387 SE2d 386); Mindock v. State, 187 Ga. App. 508 (370 SE2d 670)), and the admission in evidence of appellant’s guilty pleas in two other armed robberies which appellant contended were too dissimilar to be “similar transactions.” See Black v. State, 186 Ga. App. 406 (367 SE2d 238). Held:

As…