C. A. W. v. State

BOYER, Judge.

Appellant was charged by sworn petition with being a delinquent child because of an alleged robbery. The State’s first witness at the trial was the alleged victim who described the robbery in detail and identified appellant as one of the robbers. Although she testified on direct examination that she saw the robbers following the commission of the crime, when the defense counsel undertook to cross examine her as to when she saw them and under what circumstances the trial judge sustained an objection on the sole ground that the question was beyond the scope of direct examination.…