Castleberry v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appbal from the Circuit Court of Coueculi. Tried before the Hon. J. C. Richardson. The appellant in this case, Ed Castleberry, was tried and convicted under an indictment charging him with the carnal knowledge of, or abuse in the attempt to carnally know, a negro girl under the age of ten years; and was sentenced to the penitentiay for ten years.
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Appbal from the Circuit Court of Coueculi. Tried before the Hon. J. C. Richardson. The appellant in this case, Ed Castleberry, was tried and convicted under an indictment charging him with the carnal knowledge of, or abuse in the attempt to carnally know, a negro girl under the age of ten years; and was sentenced to the penitentiay for ten years. The evidence in the (‘ase necessary to an understanding of the decision on the present appeal, is sufficiently stated in the opinion. Cpon the introduction of Doolie Bradley, the negro girl whom tin» defendant is charged with having carnally known or…
1Opinion of the CourtHaralson, J.
1. The defendant was'asked by the solicitor on his cross-examination, “llave you ever been convicted of any crime?” which question was objected to by the defendant as being incompetent. The court overruled the objection, and the witness answered, that ho had been convicted for fighting. The question asked was not subject to the general objection made to it; for, while it was capable of eliciting evidence for conviction of an offense which, under the statute, did not go to the competency or credibility of the witness, it was also capable of eliciting evidence which did go to his competency or…
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