State v. Gaiten

BRANCH, Justice.

Appellant’s first and principal assignment of error is as follows:

The defendant excepts to and assigns as error the court’s exclusion of the following relevant cross examination of the prosecuting witness, Henry J. Reeves, by sustaining objections to proper questions, ordering the jury to retire from the courtroom to the jury room, and stating that said cross examination was irrelevant to this case, in violation of the defendant’s constitutional right to confront the witnesses against him and to submit them to his cross examination in the presence of the jury, as guaranteed by…