Ellis v. People

By the court, Allen, Justice.

There was no error in allowing the questions to be propounded to the prosecutrix and principal witness, which were objected to by the prisoner. Upon cross-examination by the prisoner’s counsel, she had testified to intimate social and professional relations between herself and the prisoner, and that the latter had borrowed money from her, from time to time, on several occasions; and a receipt, purporting to be signed by the witness, had been produced by the prisoner, in which the loans were mentioned, and the ring alleged to be stolen was said to have been lent to…