State v. Sharpe

Defendant was indicted for the murder of Calvin Holden, and was convicted of manslaughter. The record contains six bills of exception, but defendant relies on only two of them for a reversal. The four bills abandoned possess no merit whatever.

The first bill upon which defendant relies for a reversal is one that was taken to a ruling of the court, permitting one of the state’s witnesses, Bamber Husser, to explain on redirect examination why he made statements directly in conflict with those he made on the preliminary trial of the accused. The defendant strenuously urges, and did so before the…