Johnson v. State

The accused was deprived of no substantial right by the refusal of the court to allow his counsel to prove by a witness whose name appeared on the indictment as prosecutor that he did not in fact sustain any such relation to the case. The trial judge did not., in exercising his privilege of himself examining witnesses introduced by the prosecution, intimate any opinion as to the weight to be given their testimony ; and the jury were fuily and fairly instructed as to the burden resting on the State of showing that at the time the accused acquired possession of the horse alleged to have been…