65 So. 501 | Miss. | 1914
delivered the. opinion of the court.
Appellant was convicted on a charge of selling intoxicating liquors. The only witness for the state testifying
It is elementary law that a witness may be examined as to his bias or interest in the case in which he is testifying. It was certainly pertinent to inquire into the motives of the witness for the state, especially as the defendant testifying denied that he had sold whisky to the state’s witness. It does not.appear upon what grounds the objection to the question was based — merely an objection to the question and a ruling of the court sustaining same. . :
The court erred in its ruling, whatever may have been its reasons for same, and the case will be reversed and remanded.
Reversed and remanded.