State v. Rugan

Sherwood, C. J. —

1. witness: praehce, onmmai.

Defendant was indicted for, and convicted of, an assault with intent to kill, and appealed to the coul’t appeals, where the judgment being reversed, the State appeals here. The case of the State v. Clinton, 67 Mo. 380, settled the point that under the recent statute, a defendant who offers himself as a witness occupies the same footing as any other witness, and is, therefore, subject to the same rules and tests. For this reason the defendant having answered on examination in chief that the scar on his forehead ivas produced by the prosecuting…