Kimbrough v. State

The defendant was convicted of the offense of assault with intent to murder. The State’s evidence made a clear case. The defendant set up the justification of self-defense, and introduced as one of his witnesses his stepdaughter. Her testimony on direct examination was substantially to the same effect as was the statement of the defendant to the jury. On cross-examination the solicitor-general brought out from this witness the fact that she was unmarried, but that she had a child, about five months old at the time of the trial, of which the accused was the father; that he had begotten this…