Champion v. State

(After stating the foregoing facts.) Counsel for the defendant contends that the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict of guilty without the testimony of the witness Chandler and that this witness was successfully impeached. Code § 38-1802 provides as follows: “A witness may be impeached by disproving the facts testified to by him.” Chandler’s testimony was contradicted by one of the police officers and the witness for the defendant who was present on one material point, they having testified that Chandler first identified the wife of the defendant as the person from whom he «bought…