State v. Hogg

Defendhnt appeals from a conviction of embezzlement and sentence thereon. His first bill shows that the judge asked him several times (he being, as we understand, a witness in his own behalf) whether he had ever obtained a license to be married to the prosecutrix, whose money he is charged with having embezzled, and that he refused to answer, whereupon the judge told him, if he were not in jail already, he would send him there for contempt, to which remark there was objection and the bill. The objection was not good. Defendant as a witness was subject to cross-examination, and, though on…