State v. Carter

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Wedell, J.:

This was a prosecution for robbery in the first degree. The defendant was convicted and appeals.

There is no contention the evidence was insufficient to sustain the conviction. The first complaint is the court unduly restricted the cross-examination of two of the state’s witnesses. That part of the attempted cross-examination of both witnesses pertained to the same subject matter and related to nothing covered directly or indirectly in the direct examination of the witnesses. It pertained to purely collateral matters and involved the facts as…