144 Iowa 385 | Iowa | 1909
8. Same: credibility of witness. Undoubtedly, proof of general character when in issue generally is not necessarily confined to a single locality. See Hanners v. McClelland, 74 Iowa, 318; McGuire v. Kenefick, 111 Iowa, 141. But the charge of bad character had not been interposed, nor the evidence introduced, as bearing on his credibility as a witness. This would not have been
XII. Exception is taken to several of the .instructions. The criticisms are directed in the main at what they do not contain rather than in any error in what they said. Some of them might well have been more explanatory, but in the absence of proper requests, were without error. Nothing will be gained by reviewing them in detail, nor the evidence, in declining to interfere with the
We have discovered no reversible error, and the judgment is affirmed.