POSLEY v. STATE


288 S.W.2d 455 (1956)

Herman POSLEY v. STATE of Tennessee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

March 9, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Perry Nochlin and John B. Downey, Nashville, for plaintiff in error.

Nat Tipton, Advocate General, Nashville, for defendant in error.


PREWITT, Justice.

The defendant, Herman Posley, was convicted of robbery and sentenced to 5 years in the penitentiary.

It is insisted here that the trial judge was in error in permitting the State to cross-examine the defendant as to a previous charge of robbery.

The latitude allowed in this form of cross-examination was fully discussed in our case of Zanone v. State, 97 Tenn. 101, 110, 36 S.W. 711, 35 L.R.A. 556 and more recently discussed by Justice...

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