State v. Byrd

O’NIELL, Chief Justice.

The defendant is appealing from a conviction and sentence of imprisonment for the crime of battery committed with a dangerous weapon.

He reserved four bills of exception during the trial, but we find no merit in any of them. Three of the bills were reserved to the overruling of objections made by the defendant’s attorney to the testimony of three witnesses for the state, who were officers of the law and who testified to admissions or confessions made by the defendant soon after the commission of the crime and while he was in prison awaiting trial. The objection was that…