State v. McRae

Pee Curiam.

The defendant’s assignments of error are to the admission of evidence and to the judgment. His second assignment of error, based upon his exception 23, arose as follows. The defendant testified in his own behalf. The State in rebuttal called as a witness Paul McQueen, a deputy sheriff, who testified that he knew the general reputation of the defendant, and that the defendant had had the reputation for five or six years of making and selling whiskey. After the direct and cross-examination of this witness the presiding judge asked the witness, the following questions: “Q. Have you…