Thompson v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
After the State’s witness Jim Searcy had testified-that the defendant had not sold him any whisky, etc., the judge of the court took the witness in hand and rigidly examined him before the jury, over the objection of defendant, for some time, asking him leading questions; and thereupon retired the jury and again took State’s witness in hand and asked him whether he was trying to change his testimony or whether he couldn’t remember who got his money, whereupon witness…
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After the State’s witness Jim Searcy had testified-that the defendant had not sold him any whisky, etc., the judge of the court took the witness in hand and rigidly examined him before the jury, over the objection of defendant, for some time, asking him leading questions; and thereupon retired the jury and again took State’s witness in hand and asked him whether he was trying to change his testimony or whether he couldn’t remember who got his money, whereupon witness answered he couldn’t remember, and the court then said: “I will see if you can’t remember it,” and then turned to the county…
1Opinion of the Court
RAMSEY, Judge.
This appeal is prosecuted from a conviction had in the County Court of Taylor County wherein appellant was found guilty of selling intoxicating liquors in violation of the local option law, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $25 and twenty days confinement in the county jail.
The State introduced the witness Jim Searcy to whom the sale was alleged to have been made, who, in terms, denied having ever at any time or place bought any liquor from the appellant. The State laid a predicate to contradict him by showing his contradictory statements, amounting, in substance, to an…
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