Pollard v. State

ROBERTSON, Justice:

The appellant, Norman Pollard, was indicted, tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of Lee County, of the crime of false pretense (giving a bad check), and was sentenced to serve a term of three years in the State Penitentiary and to pay a fine of $250.00.

The appellant assigned as error: the granting of State’s Instruction No. 1; the refusal to direct a verdict for the defendant; and permitting the state to go into collateral matters and to impeach the appellant on the collateral issue of whether he had done business on a hold-check basis with other used car dealers.

Appell…