Opinion ID: 1854952
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Heading: Exclusion of Evidence of Reputation of Decedent

Text: Finally, White argues that certain evidence as to the victim's bad reputation was excluded. The law in Alabama is found in Headley v. State, 51 Ala.App. 148, 283 So.2d 458 (1973); if the evidence in a homicide trial tends to show self-defense, the defendant may prove the victim's bad general reputation for peace and quiet, for violence, as tending to show the victim was the aggressor. The trial court judge gave the defendant ample opportunity to do this. The hearing on the motion for a new trial was not the proper time to introduce more evidence, for the most part cumulative. We have searched the record and find no error. Affirmed. HEFLIN, C.J., and BLOODWORTH and EMBRY, JJ., concur. ALMON, J., concurs in the result.