Brown v. State

Under the procedure in this state, a person accused of crime is required, upon trial, to answer only the specific charge contained in the accusation, whether by complaint or indictment, and none other.

Upon the trial of a defendant charged by indictment with murder, it is error of a highly prejudicial nature to permit the state to offer evidence of the general bad character of the defendant as being dangerous, violent, turbulent, and bloodthirsty, where no such issue has been injected into the trial by the defendant and no attempt made by the defendant to sustain her character in any manner.

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