State v. Warren

1. Whilst defendant was being tried for shooting with a dangerous weapon, with intent to kill, his counsel reserved a bill of exceptions from which it appears that the prosecuting witness was asked, on cross-examination, whether he had not “advanced on the accused with a hickory stick in his hand, and in a threatening manner,” to which he answered in the affirmative; whereupon, or later, he was asked “If he had not on one occasion shot a negro, on the Front Place, under similar circumstances, which fact was known to the accused,” to which it was objected that a proper foundation had not been…