Roberts v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

This conviction is for manslaughter. When the dying declarations were offered, appellant reserved several exceptions, • involving their admissibility. Drs. Fuller and Blackshear testified that they informed deceased he could not survive. They further stated, they could only keep him alive by the use of opiates. Deceased stated they said he could not live, sent for Miss Fuller, to whom it seems he was engaged, and told her he could not live, and released her from the engagement and requested that she should marry some man and make him a good wife. This is the…