Lloyd v. State

W. H. Lloyd was convicted of assault and battery by striking and seriously injuring Valentine Walker, the five-year-old child of C. 0. Walker, with an automobile. The motion for a new trial is based upon the general grounds, and one special ground complaining that the court refused to permit C. 0. Walker to testify on cross-examination that he had filed a suit for damages against the defendant on account of the injuries to the child.

The jury might have concluded from the testimony of C. 0. Walker and others that the child had stepped on the road to cross it at a point where she could have…