Harper v. State

Ohio Supreme Court

Decided December 29, 1922

Ohio Supreme Court · decided 1922-12-29

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Decided 1922-12-29

How this case has been cited

Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably 6 Ohio St. 2d 14 - State v. Woodards (1966), State v. Arrington (1975)

5 federal appellate · 20 state decisions

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

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WANAMAKER, J.:

¶11. Under Section 13659, General Code, the defendant in a criminal prosecution may be cross-examined as to his conviction of crime under state or federal laws.

¶22. His conviction under a city ordinance is not competent. (Coble v. State, 31 Ohio St., 100, approved and followed.)