Legal Opinion

Ward v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided April 28, 1954No. 26,945Published

1Opinion

*236on appellant’s motion for rehearing

WOODLEY, Judge.

On original submission we reached the conclusion that because appellant, on his direct examination, had first gone into the matter and had testified that he had never had an accident, reversible error was not shown in his being asked on cross-examination : “As a matter of fact, you had a wreck in Monahans and paid a $200 fine didn’t you?”

Appellant admits that it would have been proper for the state to show, if they could, that contrary to appellant’s claim, he in fact had been involved in an accident. But he points out that this was not the…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Kemp v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1952
  2. Lampkin v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1905
  3. Evans v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1951

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