McClendon v. State

Appellant was indicted, tried and convicted in 'the circuit court of Pike County for the crime of murder in the second degree, for wounding Austin Cox with a knife, on the 5th day of May, 1928, from the effects of which he died on the 7th day of May, 1928, and was adjudged to serve a term of five years in the State Penitentiary as a punishment therefor, from which is this appeal.

Among the assignments of error urged by appellant for a reversal of the judgment was the refusal of the trial court to allow him to introduce in evidence several judgments of conviction for felonies committed by the…