State v. . Arnold
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for assault with intent to commit rape, tried before Lyon, J., and a jury, at September Term, 1907, of the Superior Court of CeaveN County. The defendant was convicted of an assault with intent to commit rape, and from the judgment imposed appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtBeowN, J.
There was evidence introduced tending to prove that the prosecutrix is a woman of bad character, and evidence that she is a woman of good character. The defendant offered to prove specific acts of adultery upon the part of the prosecutrix with others than himself, and that on one occasion she exhibited to a male companion a photograph of herself in the nude. Such testimony is incompetent. It is almost universally belcl that proof of particular facts is inadmissible in impeaching á witness, because'such proof tends to a number of collateral issues, and neither the witness nor the party…
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