Weaver v. State

Candler, Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) When a son of the defendant was on the stand as a witness, the trial judge refused to permit the son to answer a question as to whether on another occasion the deceased had cut the son. The defendant contends that, if the witness had been permitted to respond to the question,' he would have answered that the deceased cut him, and that the reputation of the' deceased for violence was bad. Further, in the same special ground, it is contended that *604the evidence showed that the deceased was the aggressor and had brought the fight to the…