Durham v. State

1. Upon the trial of one indicted for murder, there was no error in refusing to allow counsel for the defendant, on cross-examination, to ask a witness for the State, “You tried to lie about that once when they tried Elmo Morgan and sent him up?” This was not a proper, form of question, nor did it indicate an answer which would have been admissible; nor was this aided by the Statement on the part of counsel for the defendant that at a" former trial of a different defendant, which involved the same issue, the witness had “undertaken to testify differently.” If the witness testified differently…