Scruggs v. State

The evidence in the case was without conflict that there was no bad feeling between defendant and deceased prior to the killing. Defendant and his family lived something like three-quarters of a mile away, and the evidence shows friendly and frequent exchange of visits, and no one testified to any circumstánee of prior ill will. It was not competent on that issue to show that defendant-had contributed to the support of the family of the mother of deceased, of which he was a member, also several sisters, though the father of deceased was dead and • defendant’s .wife was also a sister.

While…