McKay v. State

Jenkins, Presiding Justice.

1. The evidence authorized the verdict. . Accordingly, the general grounds of the motion for new trial and the first two of the special grounds, which are but an elaboration thereof, are without merit.

2. Special grounds 3 and 4, assigning error on the admission, over the defendant’s objection, of evidence set forth in the statement of facts, as to the perpetration by the defendant of two holdups of other persons in the vicinity of the homicide and during the same night, in which a pistol was employed, are without merit under numerous decisions of this court. See…