Williams v. State, 72890
| Decision Date | 04 September 1986 |
| Docket Number | No. 72890,72890 |
| Citation | 180 Ga.App. 227,348 S.E.2d 747 |
| Parties | WILLIAMS v. The STATE. |
| Court | Georgia Court of Appeals |
Jon Gary Branan, Claxton, for appellant.
Dupont K. Cheney, Dist. Atty., J. Thomas Durden, Jr., J. Stephen Archer, Asst. Dist. Attys., for appellee.
Derrick Williams was convicted of burglary and sentenced to a term of twenty years, fifteen to serve and five on probation. His sole enumeration of error is that the trial court erred in admitting evidence of independent crimes. Held:
The evidence challenged here consisted of certified copies of indictments and guilty pleas from 1982 on four counts of burglary and four counts of theft by taking. Hawkins v. State, 167 Ga.App. 143, 147, 305 S.E.2d 797 (1983). We find that the evidence here challenged meets the requirements of the law, and it was not error to admit such evidence. See also Reynolds v. State, 172 Ga.App. 628(1), 323 S.E.2d 912 (1984); Weaver v. State, 169 Ga.App. 890(2), 315 S.E.2d 467 (1984); Burnette v. State, 168 Ga.App. 578(3), 309 S.E.2d 875 (1983).
Judgment affirmed.
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