ECHOLS v. STATE

8 Div. 591.

55 So.2d 530 (1951)

ECHOLS v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

November 8, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. A. Lynne, Decatur, for petitioner.

Si Garrett, Atty. Gen., and L. E. Barton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.


LIVINGSTON, Chief Justice.

We cannot agree with the opinion of the Court of Appeals in its holding that no reversible error intervened in the cross-examination of defendant's character witness Lester Whitten.

It is needless, of course, to repeat here the examination of the witness as revealed by the opinion of the Court of Appeals. That court recognized that character cannot be proven by specific act, but based its opinion on the fact that only a general objection...

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