Court Opinion

ID: 9597180
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 00:56:15.457597+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:01:37.122255
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
The movant (appellant) contends the third division of the opinion is erroneous. The cases cited by movant, Fowler v. State, 132 Ga. App. 812 (209 SE2d 255) and Arnold v. State, 133 Ga. App. 451 (211 SE2d 404), point out that, under the prior bifurcated jury procedure, records of conviction were not admissible absent a showing that the accused was represented by counsel.
Here no records of conviction were offered or admitted into evidence. The trial judge, apparently referring to an F. B. I. "rap sheet,” asked the accused various questions about his previous transgressions. The accused freely answered the questions, admitting he was convicted of burglary and sentenced to five years (three of which he served). It was also brought out that he was represented by counsel. The remaining interrogation merely revealed that while the accused had been charged with other crimes he had served no other time. Without approving the method used by the trial judge we merely find no error here of which the accused may complain. Mitchell v. State, 136 Ga. App. 390, 392 (221 SE2d 465); Clark v. State, 138 Ga. App. 266.

Rehearing denied.