Mayes v. State

1. Allowing the introduction of illegal evidence offered to establish particular facts is not cause for a new trial, when such facts are either admitted by the objecting party or clearly established by uncontradicted legal testimony.

2. Even if evidence offered to discredit a witness for the accused in a criminal trial was not competent, and therefore inadmissible, neither admitting it norgiving in reference to it a charge appropriate to evidence legally admitted for such a purpose should be treated as cause for a new trial, when, even upon the assumption that the testimony of this witness was…