Fussell v. State

1. The questions which the court asked the witness, as set ' out in special ground 1 of the motion for new trial, were not calculated to impress the jury with the idea that the judge believed the State should prevail, and were not violative of section 1058 of the Penal Code (1910). “The court may properly propound questions to a witness on the stand, with a view to elicit the truth of the case; and if in such examination the court does not express or intimate an opinion as to the credibility of the witness, or as to what has or has not been proved, the mere fact that competent testimony of…