Smith v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Pike. Tried before the Hon. John E. Tyson. The appellant was indicted, tried and convicted for grand larceny.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Pike. Tried before the Hon. John E. Tyson. The appellant was indicted, tried and convicted for grand larceny. On the trial of the cause, as is shown by the bill of exceptions, the State introduced as a witness one J. T. Parks, who testified that he was a policeman in the city of Troy, Alabama, in the year 1892, and that as such officer he was sent for by one Mamie Baldwin to come to the house where she was living, and was told that she had lost a gold necklace ; that the defendant was in the room at the time the witness was told of this, and he and the said…
1Opinion of the CourtHaralson, J.
1. There was no error in the refusal of the court to allow the defendant, on the cross-examination of the witness, Parks, for the State, to ask the question, if Lillie Elbert, the woman with whom the owner of the necklace alleged to have been stolen boarded, did not keep a bawdy house. Such evidence was not admissible for any purpose. Nor was it at all proper for the defendant to ask the witness, Ula Roberts, if she had not made the same statements on the preliminary trial that she was making on this trial.
2. The defendant proposed to prove by Molly Bell that she had seen the defendant at the…
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