Smith, Justice, dissenting. I respectfully dissent. The majority opinion concedes that appellant’s character was erroneously placed in issue, but concludes that the trial judge’s prompt corrective instructions to the jury rendered the error harmless. I do not agree that the illegal testi *5 mony was so easily wiped from the juror’s minds. In my view, the harm…
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