JONES v. STATE


523 S.W.2d 942 (1975)

William Wiley JONES and Bobby Lee Weatherford, alias, James Robert Woods, Plaintiffs-in-Error, v. STATE of Tennessee, Defendant-in-Error.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee.

March 19, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Landis Turner, Hohenwald, W. Gary Blackburn, Nashville (on appeal), for plaintiffs-in-error.

R.A. Ashley, Jr., Atty. Gen., William J. Haynes, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, Tommy Doyle, Sp. Prosecutor, Linden, Elmer D. Davies, Jr., Dist. Atty. Gen., Franklin, for defendant-in-error.


OPINION

O'BRIEN, Judge.

Appeal from a jury conviction for burglary in the third degree and sentence to serve not less than six nor more than ten years in the State Penitentiary.

By the first assignment of error defendants contend the trial court should not have allowed testimony regarding charges allegedly pending against them for unrelated crimes, including crimes with which defendant Weatherford was not in fact charged, to be presented to the jury...

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