Howard v. State

1. We will deal with special grounds 1 and 2 together, since the facts on which these grounds are based are so interwoven it would not be practical to treat them separately. Special ground 1 assigns error as follows: “Because during the trial of said case the court, over objections by movant, permitted Stothard Deal, a witness for the State, to testify as follows: ‘Then, Emory Gordon, that same afternoon is when he told me what he swore here on the stand about John asking the girl, he said do you believe I’ll lull you, and she said no, [italics ours] and about that time he turned his back.’…