Moore v. State

The theory advanced by the appellant in his defense, as indicated by the examination of the state’s witnesses and by some of the evidence offered on the trial, was that the prosecution was a malicious one instigated by the state’s witnesss Sellers for the purpose of acquiring possession of defendant’s lands adjoining those of Sellers. On the cross-examination of the state’s witness Arrington, who is shown to have been one of Sellers’ tenants, he was examined extensively as to the interest he had manifested in the prosecution of the defendant, and his testimony tended to refute the fact that…