Holmes v. State

BAKER, Judge. —

The appellant was charged by indictment with the murder of Alfred Grayson in the District Court of Newton County, convicted of manslaughter and his punishment assessed at five years confinement in the penitentiary.

Complaint is made by the appellant in bill No. 2 to the action of the court in permitting the State’s witness Binson, a constable, to testify to an alleged conversation between the defendant and one De Hart and his wife after they arrested the defendant, to the effect that “I heard defendant tell De Hart and his wife that he was going to tell that he had been over…