Willis v. State

1. A female witness can not be impeached by showing her lack oí chastity, such lack of chastity not being a relevant fact in the case. Smithwick v. Evans, 24 Ga. 461. Hence, on a trial for murder, there was no error in sustaining an objection on the ground of irrelevancy, when counsel for the accused sought, on 'cross-examination, to elicit from a witness testimony that she had been guilty of illicit sexual relations with several men.- Nor did the rejection of the testimony become erroneous because the judge, of his’own motion, gave as a further reason for rejecting it the rule of law that…