State v. Hinton

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Schroeder, J.:

This is a criminal action wherein the defendant was convicted of driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor by a jury. He was sentenced to a term of ninety days in the county jail of Montgomery County, Kansas, and fined $100. Appeal has been duly perfected.

The controlling question on appeal is whether the trial court erred in permitting the state to cross-examine various character witnesses on assumed prior arrests and convictions of the defendant for drunkenness and drunken driving.

On the 15th day of March, 1969, Eldon…