Stewart v. United States

Appellant was indicted for the offense of robbery in the District of Columbia, was tried, convicted, and sentenced. He appeals and assigns'as error the action of the trial court in overruling his objection to the question asked of his character witness— if she knew that the defendant had been arrested for investigation in 1936 and in 1937.

In the instant case the question was proper, for the reason that the accused himself had previously testified on- direct examination “that he had been arrested for investigation on two previous occasions but never charged with any crime.” This testimony…