State v. Presta
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Spokane county, Huneke, J., entered December 8,1917, upon a trial and conviction of arson.
1Opinion of the CourtBridges, J.
The appellant was charged with the crime of arson in the second degree. Upon trial he was convicted, and from judgment thereon, appeals to this court.
The appellant put on the witness stand some three or four character witnesses, all of whom testified that his general reputation was good. On cross-examina*257tion of at least two of these witnesses, the prosecuting attorney asked if they had heard about the appellant having had a fire which destroyed the house in which he lived, and also whether they had heard that the house in which the appellant and his father lived had been destroyed by fire.…
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