State v. Goodrich
Idaho Supreme Court
APPEAL from the District Court of the Third Judicial District, for Ada County. Hon. Charles P. McCarthy, Judge. Conviction for selling and disposing of intoxicating liquor for beverage purposes. Improper rehabilitating evidence was admitted after impeachment of state’s witness Simmons, by testimony of his reputation at residence abandoned three years before trial. (Fisher v. Conway, 21 Kan. 18, 125, 30 Am.
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APPEAL from the District Court of the Third Judicial District, for Ada County. Hon. Charles P. McCarthy, Judge. Conviction for selling and disposing of intoxicating liquor for beverage purposes. Improper rehabilitating evidence was admitted after impeachment of state’s witness Simmons, by testimony of his reputation at residence abandoned three years before trial. (Fisher v. Conway, 21 Kan. 18, 125, 30 Am. Rep. 419; McGuire v. Eenefick, 111 Iowa, 147, 82 N. W. 485; Watkins v. State, 82 G-a. 231, 14 Am. St. 155, 8 S. E. 875; State v. Potts, 78 Iowa, 656, 43 N. W. 534, 5 L. R. A. 814; Sun Fire…
1Opinion of the CourtRice, C. J.
Appellant was convicted of having wilfully and unlawfully sold and disposed of intoxicating liquor for beverage purposes.
To rebut testimony admitted on behalf of appellant that the reputation of respondent’s principal witness for truth and veracity was bad, respondent was permitted to introduce testimony to the effect that the reputation of the witness for truth and veracity at the place where he had resided some three years previous to the trial was good. Appellant contends that the reception of this evidence was error, since the time was too remote to give it probative value.
The reputation…
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