Parasco v. State

The conviction is ordered reversed because a state’s witness, who had testified that the reputation of appellant’s witnesses Bobbitt and Harris for truth and veracity was bad, was permitted to express the opinion that the testimony under oath of neither was worthy of belief. I am unable to agree.

The rule cited by the majority requires the reputation witness to speak from general reputation and not from his own private opinion.

The proper form in inquiry, it appears, would have been to inquire of the witness who had testified that the general reputation of the defense witnesses was bad for…