Ewing v. State

ON MOTION FOR" REHEARING.

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

— -In the motion for rehearing the court is criticised as being unduly technical in ruling on Bills of Exception Nos. 3, 6 and 7. These bills relate to the ruling of the court in receiving in evidence certain testimony drawn out on the cross-examination of the appellant’s witnesses.

Bill No. 3 complains that Leonard, a witness for the appellant, had testified that the general reputation of J. E. Brand for truth and veracity in the community in which he lived was bad. On cross-examination state’s counsel asked the witness if it was not the…