State v. Bloom

The appellee was indicted in the court below, for larceny, and, upon trial, was acquitted.

On the trial, the defendant was permitted - to prove, as part of her defence, and over the exception of the prosecuting attorney, that her general moral character or reputation, jn the neigliboi’hood in which she lived, was good, the prosecuting attorney insisting that the evidence should he confined to the defendants general reputation in the neighborhood in which she lived, for honesty and integrity.

The State "brings the ease here for the purpose of settling the question of law involved.

The code has…