State v. Cantrell

The defendant entered a plea of not guilty to the charge in the bill of indictment, and undertook to prove an alibi. He offered a witness in his behalf not only for the purpose of establishing his alibi, but also to testify to a conversation which the witness claimed to have had with the prosecutrix sometime prior to the trial, which conversation tended to exonerate the. defendant. Whereupon, the court took over the examination of the witness and asked him the following questions :

“Q. When did you talk to her ? A. I talked with her on Saturday, two weeks before the last court.

“Q. Where was…