GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.
Willie Lee Perry was charged with murder in the second degree, was found guilty of that offense, and was sentenced to ten years imprisonment. We find no merit in his two points for reversal.
First, Perry's counsel, in seeking to prove self-defense by showing that the decedent was the aggressor, attempted to cross-examine police officers about the decedent's police record. That evidence was properly excluded, because it would at...
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