State v. . Lattimore

William Lineberger testified that he was president of the Cleveland Bank and Trust Company from its organization in 1920 to its merger on 24 February, 1930, with the Union Trust Company, and that during this period the defendant was the secretary and treasurer of the Cleveland Bank and Trust Company and the custodian of its records. Near the beginning of his testimony the witness inadvertently referred to an irrelevant account and upon discovering it corrected the error. The court struck out this testimony and instructed the jury to disregard the questions and the answers. Necessarily the…