Carter v. State

Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree. On the trial Barney Berry was a witness for the state and testified to the commission of the offense by appellant. Appellant undertook to impeach this witness by proving his bad character. Ab Watkins was such an impeaching witness. The substance of his testimony was that he knew, or thought he knew, the character of the aforesaid state’s witness in the community where he was then living; but that his information did not extend prior to the commission of the crime to which Barney Berry had testified; that he had recently moved into the…