Clark v. State

The defendant, in making his statement to the jury, said: '“I have been in town forty years. 1 was raised by white people, and I think have got a pretty good record.” Over objection, a witness for the State was allowed to testify as follows: “As to what people say about him as to his general reputation for peacefulness and violence — I don’t know that I ever heard any of the white people say anything. I have heard the colored folks say things about him. These folks that I have heard say anything about him, they say his reputation is bad. . . The only things I have ever heard against him the…