Smith v. State

1. The defendant was convicted of the offense of simple larceny, it being alleged that he had stolen certain cottonseed. The prosecutor, W. A. Stone, was permitted to testify, over objection: “My opinion is that if Jim Christian, my cropper, had used all the fifteen bales of cottonseed I let him have to use, under his crop, he would have made a good deal more than he did make. My opinion is that if he had used all the fifteen bales of cottonseed under his crop, he would have made seven or eight bales of cotton and about ten bushels of corn per acre.” We think the objection, that this was a…