State v. Blassengame

Defendant was convicted of murder without capital punishment, and he-has appealed from the verdict and sentence;

[1] 1. His first bill of exception shows that while “Kid Fields,” a state witness, was on the stand, the district attorney asked him:

“If the defendant was not running a near-beer stand, and if he was not a partner, or had an interest, in a house of prostitution over the-place where he was doing business.”

The questions were objected to as irrelevant, “as an evident attack upon the character of the defendant, which he had not put at issue, and as intended to prejudice-defendant before…