Griffin v. State

Citations

• 26 Tex. Ct. App. 157
• 9 S.W. 459
• 1888 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 173

Syllabus

<p>Murder—Practice—Impeachment of Witnesses.—Two rules apply to and govern impeaching and sustaining testimony. First. The inquiry must be restricted to the general character of the witness sought to be impeached. Second. Impeaching or sustaining witnesses must speak from the general reputation, and not from their private opinions, as to whether the character of the impeached witness is good or bad for truth, or as to whether the general reputation of the impeached witness is such as to entitle him to credit on oath. See the opinion in extenso for a course of interogation in a trial for murder held to be-subversive of these rules.</p>