Bove v. State

The appellant having been indicted in the circuit court of Warren county on a charge of arson, the cause was transferred to the county court where he was tried, con victed and sentenced to serve a term of four years in the state penitentiary.

One of the principal errors assigned for a reversal of the case on this appeal is that the state was permitted to introduce a witness, Jack Wright, the father-in-law of the appellant, and to treat him as an adverse witness and cross-examine him, with a view of later contradicting him, if necessary, without it first appearing that the witness had proven…