State v. Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad

How courts have described this case

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• class of convictions used to attack witness’s credibility generally limited to felonies and offenses involving dishonesty
• apparent object of Rule 609 to limit admissibility to convictions sufficiently probative “to justify general impeachment” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).