Young v. State

Upon an indictment for murder the plaintiff in error, Young, was convicted of the offense of voluntary manslaughter, and excepted to the overruling of a motion for a new trial. This motion complains that the verdict was contrary to the evidence, and assigns error upon the refusal of the court to exclude proof of certain declarations of the deceased, the contention of the accused being that “these declarations of the deceased were admitted without sufficient evidence that he was then in articulo mortis or in any way realized the near approach of death.”

*8501. As to the general grounds of the…