Blunt v. State

The indictment charges appellant and two others jointly with the theft of a certain hog, the property of Matt Hughes, and of the value of $8. The commission of the offence is fixed on the seventeenth day of January, 1878.

On the trial, as stated in the bill of exceptions, the counsel for the defence, with a view of showing the animus and ill-feeling of the prosecuting witness towards the defendant, asked him the question, “ Don’t you love the defendant?” which the witness refused to answer, and the court declined to interfere and require him to answer. A witness may be impeached by showing his…