Ward v. State

On Appellant’s Motion for Rehearing. ■

WOODLEY, Judge.

On original submission we reached the conclusion that because appellant, on his direct examination, had first gone into the matter and had testified that he had never -had an accident, reversible error was not *467shown in his being asked on cross-examination : “As a matter of fact, you had a wreck in Monahans and paid a $200 fine didn’t you?”

Appellant admits that it would have been proper for the state to show, if they could, that contrary to appellant’s claim, he in fact had been involved in an accident. But he points out that this was not…