Ex Parte State

BROWN, Justice.

The Court of Appeals reversed the judgment of conviction because the solicitor did not lay a proper predicate for the admission of testimony showing contradictory statements of witnesses made out of court as impeaching their testimony given on the trial by calling to the attention of the witness on cross-examination the alleged contradictory statements, giving the time, place and person to whom the same were made. Bridges v. State, 225 Ala. 81, 142 So. 56; Pittman v. Calhoun, 231 Ala. 460, 165 So. 391; Couch v. Hutcherson, 243 Ala. 47, 8 So.2d 580, 141 A.L.R. 697.

The Court also…