People v. Webster

Citations

• 89 Cal. 572
• 26 P. 1080
• 1891 Cal. LEXIS 856

Syllabus

<p>Criminal Law— Assault with a Deadly Weapon — Evidence — Subsequent Charos by Prosecuting Witness — Cross-examination — Reexamination.— Upon the trial of a defendant charged with assault with a deadly weapon, it is competent, for the purpose of showing the relations between the parties and the state of feeling of the prosecuting witness towards the defendant, to show by the witness on cross-examination that he had caused the defendant to be arrested and tried since the assault, on a charge of disturbing the peace, and that the defendant had been acquitted of that charge; but it is error to permit the witness, on re-examination, to state the facts in connection with the latter charge as involved in and brought out at the trial thereof.</p> <p>Id. — Impeachment of Prosecuting Witness — General Reputation — Personal Knowledge of Impeaching Witness. —Where a witness for the defense was asked, for the purpose of impeachment of the prosecuting witness, whether he knew his general reputation \in \the community where he lived, for honesty, truth, and veracity, and the witness answered that he only knew from what he heard people generally say of him, it is error for the court to rule that he could only testify as to what he knew of his reputation of his own personal' knowledge.</p>