Smith v. State

The defendant was indicted, tried and convicted of larceny. Exceptions were taken at the trial to the admission of evidence upon two points; first, upon the question of character, and, second, upon the reception of confessions.

Before the close of the evidence in behalf of the state, the defendant asked one of the witnesses for the state, “ if he had ever heard of any charge against him, defendant, before the present one” — to which he answered that he never had heard him charged • with any offense before the present case. This witness also gave testimony tending to prove the general good…