Coulson v. State

I cannot concur in tbe majority opinion for two reasons: First, because the evidence was not incompetent.

The evidence of the state was that the defendant and one Richardson were both drunk, and the defendant stopped opposite the deceased and ordered him to get up, and that, as deceased started to get up in response to the command of the defendant, defendant struck deceased a blow on the neck with his fist; that deceased staggered a short distance to the north and fell, and died within 20 or 30 minutes as the result of a broken neck caused by the blow struck by defendant.

Defendant claims that…