Brown v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Íbom the circuit court of Pike county. Hon. Moyse H. Wilkinson, Judge. Lady Brown, appellant, was indicted and tried for and convicted of the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquors and appealed to the supreme court. The facts upon which the decision turned are stated in the opinion of the court. In Code 1906, § 1923, it is provided that a witness may.be examined touching his interest in the cause or his conviction of any crime. Of any crime, means what it says.
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Íbom the circuit court of Pike county. Hon. Moyse H. Wilkinson, Judge. Lady Brown, appellant, was indicted and tried for and convicted of the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquors and appealed to the supreme court. The facts upon which the decision turned are stated in the opinion of the court. In Code 1906, § 1923, it is provided that a witness may.be examined touching his interest in the cause or his conviction of any crime. Of any crime, means what it says. If it meant that the witness might be examined as to one conviction only, it would have said so. One reason for the provisions of this…
1Opinion of the CourtMates, J.
Section 1923 of the Code of 1906 provides that any witness may be examined touching his conviction of any crime; yet when counsel undertook to cross-examine as to this, and asked the witness if he had been convicted of more than one crime, the trial court refused to allow the question to be asked. The statute says that the witness may be examined touching his conviction of any crime; that is to say, not whether he has been convicted one time only, but of all convictions. The whole purpose of this testimony is addressed to the credibility of the *536witness, and, this being the case, all that…
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