ARNOLD v. STATE

6 Div. 753.

310 So.2d 262 (1975)

James Elliott ARNOLD v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied March 18, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert W. Stone, R. B. Jones, Birmingham, for appellant.

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., Montgomery, and David L. Weathers, Asst. Atty. Gen., Birmingham, for the State, appellee.


CATES, Presiding Judge.

First degree arson: sentence, fifteen years imprisonment.

On cross examination of a defense character witness the assistant district attorney, over appropriate objection, asked:

"If prior to September the 18th of 1971 had you heard those things, Mrs. Davis, would that change your opinion as to his general reputation and character in the community?" (R. 229)

and

"But if you had heard those things prior to...

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