Sharp v. State

This is an appeal from a conviction of the crime of abortion.

Error is assigned upon the overruling of appellant’s motion for a new trial.

It is contended that the court erred in permitting a medical witness, who had testified as an expert, to be cross-examined upon the question of whether or not septicemia might be produced- by a certain type of injury when there was no evidence that the victim had such an injury. There is no merit in the contention. It was proper for the court to allow a reasonable latitude in the examination for the purpose of testing the knowledge of the witness if for no…