Arnold v. State

CATES, Presiding Judge.

First degree arson: sentence, fifteen years imprisonment.

On cross examination of a defense character witness the assistant district attorney, over appropriate objection, asked:

“If prior to September the 18th of 1971 had you heard those things, Mrs. Davis, would that change your opinion as to his general reputation and character in the community?” (R. 229)

and

“But if you had heard those things prior to September the 18th of 1971, and comparing those things, contrasting those things with what you had heard prior to September the 18th of 1971 which caused you to say in your…