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Kimbrough v. State

Citations

  • 330 S.E.2d 875
  • 254 Ga. 504
  • 1985 Ga. LEXIS 804

How courts have described this case

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  • in a death penalty case, trial court allowed defendant to cross-examine a co-defendant about his 15-year sentence
  • “To impeach a witness hy a prior conviction the conviction must be proved by the record of conviction itself, not by cross-examination.” (punctuation omitted)
  • “To impeach a witness by a prior conviction the conviction must be proved by the record of conviction itself, not by cross-examination.”
  • no secondary evidence admitted without objection
  • no secondary evidence admitted without objection

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Judges: Marshall

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