Johnson v. State

The most damaging evidence adduced against this appellant on the trial below consisted of testimony allowed by the court over the objection and exception of the accused, as to implied admissions of guilt by the defendant, and it is insisted that, in each of the two instances where such testimony was allowed, the court committed error to a reversal.

State witness Tucker was permitted to thus testify: “I remember when the defendant was in jail last year under this charge and I had a conversation with him.” The question was asked: “I will ask you whether or not you asked him this question,…