Ray v. State

PARKS, Presiding Judge,

Specially Concurring:

With respect to appellant’s second, third and fourth assignments of error, I reiterate my disagreement with this Court’s position regarding a defendant’s admission of prior convictions. As I stated in my separate opinion in Hanson v. State, 716 P.2d 688 (Okl.Cr.1986), the decision whether to find an accused guilty of a former conviction is always within the province of the jury. Id. at 690. However, I am compelled to concur with the result in this opinion as a matter of stare decisis.