State v. Gordon

Layton, C. J.:

In State v. Short, 2 Boyce (25 Del.) 491, 82 A. 239, the defendant, claiming to have acted in self-defense, was asked if the deceased had ever told him of an altercation *222he had previously had with another person, and he answered that the deceased had told him that he had “cut up a man.” This was objected to and stricken out on the ground that to allow such communications made by the deceased to the accused would be a dangerous practice, as it would be impossible for the prosecution to disprove them.

Another witness was then called to testify, without objection, that he knew…