Reid v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of an assault on B. C. Wheat and prosecutes this appeal from such judgment.

After proving by Laurence McAlister that he “was with B. C. Wheat about noon on the day of the injury and late in- the evening of the same day, a short time before he was injured, and at each time he (B„ C. Wheat) took a big drink of whisky out of my bottle,” appellant proposed to prove by J. E. Wheat and others that they knew the general reputation of B. C. Wheat as a peaceable, law-abiding or a violent and dangerous man when drinking, and that his reputation when drinking was…