Posley v. State

The defendant, Herman Posley, was convicted of robbery and sentenced to 5 years in the penitentiary.

It is insisted here that the trial judge was in error in permitting the State to cross-examine the defendant as to a previous charge of robbery.

The latitude allowed in this form of cross-examination was fully discussed in our case of Zanone v. State, 97 Tenn. 101, 110, 36 S. W. 711, 35 L. R. A. 556 and more recently discussed by Justice Burnett in Brooks v. State, 187 Tenn. 67, 75, 213 S. W. (2d) 7.

In Zanone v. State, supra [97 Tenn. 101, 36 S. W. 714], this Court said:

“In the case of Hill v.…