Allen v. State

1. “A party voluntarily introducing a witness can not impeach him, except where the party ‘ can show to the court that he has been entrapped by the witness by a previous contradictory statement’ [Code, § 38-1801]; and he can not impeach the witness by proof of such a statement even where he claims to have been surprised and entrapped, unless the statement was made directly to himself or his attorney (Carter v. State, 17 Ga. App. 244, 86 S. E. 413; Luke v. Cannon, 4 Ga. App. 538, 62 S. E. 110), or was made to some third person with instruction to communicate it or for the purpose of being…