Ammons v. State

The plaintiff in error, A. E. Ammons (whom we shall call the defendant), was convicted in the Chattooga City Court of selling whisky on March 13, 1951. He filed a motion for new trial on the gen*792eral grounds and thereafter added four special grounds. Counsel for the defendant specifically abandons the general grounds and relies on a reversal as contended in the special grounds. The special grounds are argued together in view of their decided similarity. They are based upon the refusal of the court to require the witness for the State, H. P. Gaines, while under cross-examination by counsel for…