State v. Tawney

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Porter, J.:

The appellant was convicted of the larceny of two pigs. He assigns several errors, but relies largely upon the claim that there was an abuse of discretion by the trial court in permitting the county attorney on the cross-examination of the defendant and the defendant’s wife to ask questions which tended to degrade the witnesses, but at the time this occurred it was not considered of sufficient importance to challenge the court’s attention to the matter by an objection or motion. The wife was a very material witness and the story she…