“[t]he State may test a character witness with proper ’have you heard’ questions, but it may not transform, by its own questions, a witness who is not a character witness into one in order to be able to ask 'have you heard’ questions”
How later courts described this case
- “[t]he State may test a character witness with proper ’have you heard’ questions, but it may not transform, by its own questions, a witness who is not a character witness into one in order to be able to ask 'have you heard’ questions”
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
DOUGLAS, Judge
(dissenting).
I join in that part of the dissenting opinion by Judge Roberts which would hold that no reversible error is shown by the asking of the “have you heard” questions.