State v. Clanton

HIGGINS, Justice.

The defendant contends the trial judge committed prejudicial error (1) by permitting the solicitor to elicit evidence from two teen-age daughters of the defendant and the deceased, by means of leading questions; (2) by the manner and tone of his voice in overruling defense counsel’s objections to the leading questions; and (3) by overruling defendant’s motion to dismiss at the close of the evidence.

The exception to the solicitor’s leading questions cannot be sustained. The witnesses were the teen-age daughters of the defendant who was charged with and was on trial for the…