Taylor v. State

The text writers on the law of evidence are generally agreed that cross-examination of character witnesses as to specific acts of a defendant for the purpose of testing the witnesses’ knowledge and credibility is permissible as an exception to the rule that forbids the impeachment of witnesses by extrinsic testimony of such acts. 1 1 See Commonwealth v. Selkow, 206 Pa. Super. 273, 212 A. 2d 919 (1965). The Supreme Court in Michelson v. United States, 335 U. S. 469, 69 S. Ct. 213, 93 L. Ed. 168 (1948), the Court of Appeals in Comi v. State, 202 Md. 472, 97 A. 2d 129 (1953) and this Court in…