Gray v. State

During the cross-examination of the prosecuting witness, the defendant’s counsel asked these questions:

“I’ll ask you if when you got him [defendant] in jail, if yon didn’t take his crop down there and turn his cattle in on it?”

“Now, you have made all of the efforts you could to convict him, haven’t you?”

“You were around the courtroom all day yesterday, wasn’t you?”

These questions all sought to elicit testimony tending to show interest or bias on the part of the witness there being examined, and were relevant to the issue. Ex parte Morrow, 210 Ala. 63, 97 South. 108.

While the witness had…