Court Opinion

ID: 9849833
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 04:47:19.396018+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:20:26.734799
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Hill, Justice,
dissenting.
I dissent from so much of the court’s opinion as permits the district attorney to ask the defendant how many times he has been arrested and permits the trial *251court to cure this admitted error by instructing the jury generally that they must not speculate as to what the answer might have been to any question to which an objection was sustained.
Once the defendant’s character has erroneously been placed in issue by the district attorney, the error cannot be cured by a subsequent general jury instruction. Butler v. State, supra; Stanley v. State, supra; Aldridge v. State, supra.