State v. . Wheeler

It was in evidence that the same defendants had been convicted and sentenced for this crime at July Term, 1888, of Buncombe Inferior Court. A witness for the State was permitted to testify to acts and conduct of defendants tending to show illicit intercourse both before and since such former conviction. The defendants objected; objection overruled; exception. The court instructed the jury that they could not consider the acts and conduct of defendants prior to their former conviction except for the purpose of determining the character of the acts committed by them since; that the guilt or…