Carpenter v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is burglary, the punishment five years’ confinement in .the penitentiary.

By bill of exception No. 3 appellant complains of the action of the trial court in permitting the County Attorney, over his objection, to ask appellant if he had not been indicted for murder. The court qualified appellant’s bill by stating that “after laying the proper predicate and it appearing that the matter inquired about was not too remote, the Coünty Attorney was permitted to ask the defendant the question complained of in said bill.” In a criminal case the defendant or any other…