Waller v. State

(after stating case as above). It is first contended that the trial court erred in permitting the state, over the objection and exception of defendant, to introduce evidence in rebuttal to the effect that when the search was made at the scene of the homicide immediately thereafter no weapon of any kind was located at the place where the single-bladed, spring-back knife was found the next morning.

The state in chief had introduced a number of witnesses who testified that immediately after the commission of the homicide, a search was made of the scene of the homicide with the aid of flash lights…