Rodgers v. State

ON REHEARING.

February 1, 1922.

HAWKINS, Judge.

—Attorneys for appellant in their motion for rehearing insist with so much earnestness that we were in error in our original opinion in holding that under certain circumstances the wife of appellant might be impeached by statements made by her before the grand jury we have again examined this question. Our more complete investigation has confirmed us in the correctness of the conclusion we reached formerly, but it has also revealed that our decisions are not in harmony. The cases of Exon v. State, 33 Texas Crim. Rep., 469; Young v. State, 54 Texas…