State v. Presta

Citations

• 108 Wash. 256
• 183 P. 112
• 1919 Wash. LEXIS 858

Syllabus

<p>Witnesses (74, 101) -—Cross-Examination — To Discredit Character Witness. In a prosecution for arson, it is error, on cross-examination of character witnesses testifying for the accused, to permit the prosecuting attorney to ask if the witnesses had heard about fires that had destroyed the house in which the accused and his father had lived; the questions not being directed to knowledge of rumors or accusation against the accused or tending to discredit the evidence that his reputation was good.</p>