Bell v. State

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

LATTIMORE, Judge.

In his motion appellant lays stress on two points, viz: that the testimony of J. C. Roberts, set out in bill of exception No. 1, should have been admitted; .that it was error to allow the state witness Johnson, in re-direct examination, to say that he was separated from his wife, the sister of appellant, because of her immorality.

Appellant seeks to show that the authorities cited in our opinion disposing of the first of these contentions do not support the decision, in that the statements held self-serving in each of said authorities appear to have…