Stovall v. State

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

HAWKINS, Judge.

That part of our opinion is attacked which held admissible the testimony of Green upon re-direct examination that when promised immunity in case he would testify before the grand jury he refused to accept it and was sent to jail by the judge and kept there for two days, when he telephoned for the county attorney to come to the jail that he (Green) had decided to “come clean.” It is asserted that when a witness is induced to testify under improper influence or motive he may not be corroborated by proof that he had theretofore made statements consistent…