Chesser v. State

Upon an indictment charging murder in the first degree plaintiff in error was tried and convicted of murder in the second degree. To review the judgment imposing the sentence writ of error was taken from this court.

Assignments of error question the propriety of rulings of the court below made during the'progress of the trial excluding or admitting evidence, but the view we take of the case renders it unnecessary to discuss these assignments. The evidence excluded, accepting the theory of the defense, went only to the question of the credibility of certain State witnesses, while the evidence…