State v. Daye

BEANCH, Justice.

Defendant’s first assignment of error is that the trial court erred in allowing impeachment of defendant and defendant’s witness by reference to the week’s trial calendar on which the name of the witness appeared.

On direct examination defendant testified concerning numerous arrests and convictions resulting from violations of the liquor and motor vehicle laws. He stated that he had served time in federal prisons on three occasions, and in the State’s prisons on two occasions. He further stated: “I have never messed with dope. Naw, Sir, I have never sold anybody any dope.”

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