State v. Stanley

— Appellant, charged with the crime of rape, was found guilty by a jury, and from a judgment and sentence on the verdict he has appealed.

In part, the errors assigned are based upon what is claimed to have been improper cross-examination of the wife of the appellant, who was a witness in his behalf; the refusal to strike the answers thus elicited; and the receiving of rebuttal testimony tending to im peach the witness upon the matters improperly brought out by the cross-examination referred to, which it is claimed were collateral to the issue.

The witness, among other things, on direct…