Jenkins v. State

Citations

• 80 Md. 72
• 30 A. 566
• 1894 Md. LEXIS 95

Syllabus

<p>Assault with intent to kill — Evidence.</p> <p>Upon the trial of an indictment for an assault with intent to kill, it is not competent, on cross-examination, to ask the prosecuting witness, upon whom the assault was made, whether he had not, within a year, pointed a weapon at a third party with the intention of shooting him.</p> <p>Where there is no evidence of any hostile demonstration against the' traverser at the time of the assault, but his sole reliance for a justification of the attack is that on the preceding day the prosecuting witness uttered threats against him, he cannot be asked what interpretation he put upon the language then used by the prosecuting witness.</p>