Haynes v. Phillips

1. The court did not err in charging the jury that a witness might be impeached by disproving the facts testified to by him and by proof of general bad character and that if he was successfully impeached in either of the ways mentioned the jury should discard the witness’s testimony from its consideration in its entirety unless it was corroborated in whole or in part or by other competent and creditable testimony which it believed or by the circumstances of the case, the court having stated at the conclusion of this part of the charge that it was always solely for the jury to determine…