McGee v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as defendant James McGee, was convicted for rape and sentenced to 99 years in the State Penitentiary. He has appealed and assigned four errors.

The third assignment goes to the preponderance of the evidence and will require a reference to same hut before considering it, we shall dispose of the first two assignments.

The first assignment is that the court erred in allowing the State, over the objection and exception of counsel for defendant, to impeach the defendant’s character by asking him about his conviction of another offense about nine months…