State v. Stallings

Full title: STATE v. STALLINGS AND OTHERS

Court: Superior Court of North Carolina

Date published: Jan 1, 1804

3 N.C. 300 (N.C. Super. 1804)

Opinion

(Spring Riding, 1804.)

The State may ask if a witness is a man of bad moral character.

MACAY, J., after argument:

The Attorney-General may ask the question concerning a witness for the defendants, whether he is a man of bad moral character. He is not confined to the question whether the witness be a man of veracity, or of veracity when (301) upon oath.

So the question was asked as to his moral character.

NOTE. — See S. v. Boswell, 13 N.C. 209.

Cited: S. v. Boswell, 13 N.C. 210; S. v. Daniel, 87 N.C. 508.