Laird v. State

OPINION

DAUGHTREY, Judge.

The defendant-appellant, Horace Wayne Laird, was charged with escaping from the Madison County Workhouse, where he had been confined on a felony conviction for forgery. The jury found Laird guilty and sentenced him to serve an additional eleven months and twenty-nine days on the escape conviction. On appeal the defendant raises multiple assignments of error, the most serious of which concern (1) the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict, (2) the admissibility of evidence of other crimes committed by the defendant, (3) the exclusion of certain testimony…