Gay v. State

The plaintiff in error was, in the city court of Bainbridge, convicted of the offense of stabbing, and by his bill of exceptions assigns error upon the overruling of a motion for a new trial. The case as here presented turns upon the question dealt with in the headnote. The court, over the objection of counsel for the accused, allowed the State to prove that he had, previously to the trial then in progress, been convicted of the offense of trespass in going upon the land where the alleged stabbing took place. It is true that in the case under investigation it was material to inquire whether…