Brown v. State

William Brown was convicted of robbing one Helen Schaffer, in Phoenix, Maricopa county, Arizona, on or about June 6, 1927. He appeals from the sentence and judgment of conviction. He assigns as error the ruling of the court refusing to permit him to introduce evidence to contradict his own witness, to wit, one J. W. Anderson. Anderson had testified for the state, and defendant on cross-examination sought to elicit from him certain statements or admissions claimed to have been made to him or in his presence by the prosecuting witness, which, upon objection from the county attorney that it was…