Williams v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court of Lauderdale. Tried before Hon. James S. Clark. Tbe appellant was indicted for an assault with intent to ravish, &o.
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Appeal from Circuit Court of Lauderdale. Tried before Hon. James S. Clark. Tbe appellant was indicted for an assault with intent to ravish, &o. On tbe trial, as appears from tbe bill of exceptions, tbe defendant offered to prove “ that the father of the girl assaulted, after be was told by her of the assault, conversed privately with tbe defendant on tbe same day, and that in that conversation no allusion was made to said assault, and proposed to prove in connection with other evidence, that two days after tbe alleged assault, tbe father of tbe girl shot tbe defendant in a difficulty about…
1Opinion of the CourtPeck, C. J.
The object or purpose of the evidence offered by the prisoner and rejected by the court, is not stated. We are unable to see that it would have had any legitimate influence to prove the innocence of the accused. We think it was commendable prudence on the part of the father tp avoid any conversation witli the accused a,s to *63violence which the daughter had told him had been offered or committed upon her person, by the accused. It might, and probably would have led, to a breach of the peace.
As it does not appear that any question of impeachment was raised, or for what purpose the proposed…
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