Greta v. State

Citations

• 10 Tex. Ct. App. 36

Syllabus

<p>EvxD3asfOE,-“A husband being prosecuted for an assault with intent to murder his wife, and the evidence of the wife tending to show that his anger was aroused by the presence with her of an unknown man two days before the alleged assault, the defense offered to prove that some twenty days previous she had been surprised in an act of criminal intimacy with the unknown man, and that defendant Was apprised of that fact. Held, that under the peculiar facts of this case, the exclusion of the proffered testimony was error. But it was not error to exclude proof of her general reputation for lewdness.</p>