State v. Redfern

CAMPBELL, Judge.

The sole question involved in this appeal is whether it was error for the trial court to allow the Solicitor to question the defendant, at some length, as to prior convictions.

At the trial defendant testified in his own behalf. On cross-examination the defendant testified that he had been convicted of assault, but that he did not know how many times. He was then questioned, at some length, about specific previous convictions dating to 1945.

*231The defendant contends that the State was bound by his answer that he had been convicted of assault, but he did not know how many times and…