State v. . Perkins

On the trial it appeared that the defendant Perkins, with one Davis and one Warden, who were charged in the same indictment, had gone to the house of Sally Fowler, arrested and taken her to the house of one Harris, a justice of the peace; when they arrived at the house of Harris, Sally Fowler made some statements respecting the conduct of the defendant Perkins towards her at the time of the arrest. A question was made whether these declarations of hers were made in the hearing of Perkins, and were admissible against him. The witness called on to state these declarations testified that Perkins…