Witness Convicted of Crime.
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case 111 Wash. 2d 124 - State v. Brown (1988)
Most recently applied in Donald Thigpen v. Morris Thigpen, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, Willie D. Johnson, Warden, Holman Unit (April 1991)
(Code 1886, §2766; Code 1896, §§1795, 1796; Code1907, §§4008, 4009; Code 1923, §§7722, 7723; Code 1940, T. 7, §§434, 435.)
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) No objection must be allowed to the competency of a witness because of his conviction for any crime, except perjury or subornation of perjury.
(b) As affecting his credibility, a witness may be examined touching his conviction for a crime involving moral turpitude, and his answers may be contradicted by other evidence.
Official source: Alabama Legislature (ALISON). Reproduced from public-domain Alabama statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.