Cobb v. State

Mobley, Justice.(a) The defendant offered as newly discovered evidence an affidavit of one Willie Jackson, dated April 2, 1963, who stated that on September 18, 1962, he was driving a truck which was involved in a collision with an automobile driven by Thomas Coleman Dumas, the son of Frank Coleman Dumas, the deceased; that Dumas was knocked out of his automobile and while he (Dumas) was lying on the ground he (Jackson) heard him say, “G’d d’m it, G’d d’m it, I killed my Daddy, now I’ve gone and killed myself”; that at the time he appeared badly injured and in fear of dying. The statement was…