Kelly v. State

1. Where in the trial of a criminal case the accused sought to impeach the witnesses for the State by proof of contradictory statements and of general bad character, and the judge in charging as to how witnesses may be impeached recited section 1026 of the Penal Code upon this subject, there being no evidence of the good character of any of the witnesses, the last clause of that section, to the effect that a witness, when impeached, may be sustained by proof of general good character, was improperly given in charge, but, under the facts of this case, was a harmless error. The facts of this…