Hedicke v. State

How later courts described this case

• stating that personal opinion testimony of a witness who knows the person is one method of proving character
• Legislative use of terms reputation and character, joined by conjunction and evidences intent to abrogate old rule that reputation was the only approved method of proving character
• “As to the remaining five witnesses, who were not included in the bill of exception, we do not know what their excluded testimony would have been or even if they 16 were prevented from testifying to anything, and we will not speculate as to such.”

Written by the judges who cited it.