State v. Brown

The defendant, William Brown, was charged with manslaughter in the killing of his wife. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. On this appeal the issues are: (1) The sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict; and (2) whether the trial court erred in admitting over objection the declaration of the victim that the defendant' had stabbed her. We affirm.

A brief summary of the evidence will lay the groundwork for dealing with both issues. The State’s first witness was Lester T. Ridley, whose mother, Ella Mae Brown, was the homicide victim. Ridley testified that on June 27, 1971, he was…