Foster v. State

CARR, Presiding Judge.

On an indictment charging murder in the first degree, the indictee was convicted of the lesser offense of manslaughter in the first degree.

The defendant introduced a number of character witnesses. With only a few exceptions they declared that they knew the general character of the defendant and that it was good.,

Then followed:

“I will ask you if prior to this May 24th, 1952, you ever heard anything against his character?”

In each instance the court sustained the State’s objection to this question.

The early case of Hussey v. State, 87 Ala. 121, 6 So. 420, 423, has become…