McDowell v. State

1. The voluntary testimony of a witness at a former trial of another party for homicide is not privileged on the trial of the witness himself for the same homicide. It may be given in evidence against him as an admission. Burnett v. State, 87 Ga. 622 (13 S.E. 552); Sheppard v. State, 68 Ga. App. 127 (22 S.E.2d 347).

2. The evidence in the instant case was sufficient to authorize the jury to find that the corpus delicti was proved. It was substantially the same on this subject as that introduced in the trial of the case of McDowell v. State, 78 Ga. App. 116 (50 S.E.2d 633), involving the same…