Williams v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Indictment for receiving stolen goods; from Morgan superior court — Judge J. B. Park. April 22, 1915.
1Opinion of the CourtWade, J.
1. It is within the legal discretion of the court to allow leading questions to be propounded by the party calling the witness, when from the conduct of the witness or for other reason justice requires it; and the court did not abuse that discretion in allowing the questions complained of in the first ground of the amendment to the motion for a new trial. Penal Code, § 1045.
2. The court did not err in admitting testimony as- to previous statements of a witness, offered merely for the purpose of showing that the State had been entrapped by this witness; especially in view of the instructions…
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