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TAYLOR v. STATE

No. 150, September Term, 1975.

28 Md. App. 560 (1975)

346 A.2d 718

WILLIAM EDWARD TAYLOR, JR. v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided November 5, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard L. Cardin, Assigned Public Defender, for appellant.

Gilbert Rosenthal, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, William E. Brannan, State's Attorney for Baltimore County, and Steven D. Silverman, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before ORTH, C.J., and GILBERT and MELVIN, JJ.

GILBERT, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

The text writers on the law of evidence are generally agreed that cross-examination of character witnesses as to specific acts of a defendant for the purpose of testing the witnesses' knowledge and credibility is permissible as an exception to the rule that forbids the impeachment of witnesses by extrinsic testimony of such acts.1 See Commonwealth v. Selkow, 206...

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