State v. . Ray

The appeal presents two questions: 1. Was there error in the admission of incompetent testimony, or in other rulings of the court, sufficient to require a new trial?

2. Was there evidence sufficient to be submitted to the jury of the guilt of defendant Chase?

1. The defendants contend that in the cross-examination of two of defendants’ witnesses questions tending to impeach the witnesses were so framed as to discredit and prejudice the defendants in the eyes of the jury. The witness Honeycutt was asked if he and the two defendants were not “caught in a hotel in Asheville with a crooked woman,”…