Lee v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Pulaski Circuit Court, First Division. .Robert J. Lea, Judge. It was error to allow the state to impeach defendant’s witnesses by showing that certain ones of their families and kinsmen were felons. It was error to allow the prosecuting attorney to comment on this in argument. 58 Ark. 368. The question as to argument of prosecuting attorney, being raised here for the first time, will not be considered.
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Appeal from Pulaski Circuit Court, First Division. .Robert J. Lea, Judge. It was error to allow the state to impeach defendant’s witnesses by showing that certain ones of their families and kinsmen were felons. It was error to allow the prosecuting attorney to comment on this in argument. 58 Ark. 368. The question as to argument of prosecuting attorney, being raised here for the first time, will not be considered. The limits within which either party may cross-examine on matters not strictly relevant, but which affect the credibility of a witness, is largely discretionary with the court; and,…
1Opinion of the CourtBattle, J.
William Lee was indicted by a grand jury of the Pulaski circuit court for grand larceny, alleged to have been committed by feloniously stealing, taking and carrying away one cow the property of John Saul, was convicted, and his punishment was assessed at one year’s imprisonment in the penitentiary. In his trial evidence was adduced by the state tending to prove his guilt, and by him witnesses were introduced whose testimony tended to prove the falsity of the state’s evidence, and to show that the principal witness who testified against him was unworthy of belief. Among these witnesses were…
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