Davis v. State

E. J. and T. Davis were indicted for the murder of Bant Groover. They pleaded not guilty. The trial resulted in a verdict of voluntary manslaughter. The defendants made a motion for a new trial, and when this was overruled they filed a bill of exceptions.

Only the first headnote needs elaboration. In speciál ground 1 of the motion for a new trial the court is alleged to have erred in allowing a witness to swear that in June prior to the homicide in September he heard E. J. Davis, one of the defendants, say: “I knocked *124Bill Cronk clown, and if this safety had worked on this gun I would have got…