Court Opinion

ID: 9684950
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Date Created: 2023-08-24 14:19:17.316779+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:18:01.271025
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CLINTON, Judge,
concurring.
The majority concludes that Article 38.29, V.A.C.C.P., does not bar to a “demonstration of the charges against the witness” in order to show her attitude in testifying for appellant. Yet appellant’s ground of error focuses on questions containing “an improper assertion of fact that the witness had committed a specific act of misconduct,” and the court of appeals identified appellant’s contention as being just that. Accordingly, there is no need for the majority to trouble itself with procedural niceties when the merits of the ground may be addressed headon.1
Each question to which appellant objected asserted some detail of an extraneous offense or retaliation. Under the holding of the Court in Campbell v. State, 167 Tex. Cr.R. 321, 320 S.W.2d 361 (1959) those questions were permissible here, just as allowing the fact that a defense witness had offered money to a State’s witness to testify favorably for the defendant was upheld in Campbell, supra.
For this reason I concur in the judgment of the Court.

. Alluding to a rule pertaining to general credibility of a witness stated in Murphy v. State, 587 S.W.2d 718 (Tex.Cr.App. 1979), in note 2 of its opinion, the majority perceives some inconsistency between trial objection and ground of error and intimates such a procedural default precludes a fuller treatment of the ground of error. The court of appeals had no problem, nor should we.