PER CURIAM.
The final judgment of conviction and sentence under review is reversed and the cause is remanded to the trial court with directions to order a new trial. We hold that the trial court committed reversible error in denying the defendant's timely motion for mistrial after a police detective, called at trial as a witness for the state, testified over objection before the jury that the defendant had a "prior felony past."
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