as he turned the corner. He also was unable to identify defendant as the man he pursued. A chambermaid in the hotel where Baa had a room said he lived there with a man known as "Little Willie"--who was not the defendant.
 The uncontradicted evidence, including the testimony of Baa, is that Baa and his companion followed Toy across the street to the Service Hotel immediately before the shooting. The Dew Drop Inn, a restaurant, was located diagonally across the street from the Service Hotel. Mrs. Fanny Batts, one of the owners of the Dew Drop Inn, called by the prosecution, testified that a minute or two before the shooting she saw two men standing in a doorway near her restaurant and across the street from the ServiceHotel. One of these men she positively identified as Baa, and she testified that his companion "was a Filipino or Mexican." (Defendant is a Negro.) The witness was not asked any further questions *604 on direct examination concerning Baa's companion, and it does not appear that before giving her testimony she knew defendant was a Negro. On cross-examination she was asked if it was a Negro with Baa and she replied, "It wasn't a Negro." Defendant was requested to stand and the witness was asked if he was the man she saw with Baa. She answered "Absolutely not ... It wasn't him."
 Dan Wysinger, a Negro boy, who was taken into custody by the police in connection with the investigation of the crime, testified that he had known