Dively v. People

The plaintiff in error was convicted of a second violation of the prohibitory law, and sentenced to a term in the penitentiary.

*269Error is assigned to the court’s overruling an objection to a question propounded by the prosecution in the cross-examination of a witness. The question was: “Is it not a fact that in the spring of 1917 when you met (the defendant), the two of you were confined in the penitentiary?” It is argued that this question was a direct attack upon defendant’s character, and improper for reasons explained in Ryan v. People, 66 Colo. 208, 180 Pac. 84. We need not decide this…