Neal v. State

Appellant was indicted in the Saline Circuit Court for the crime of murder in the first degree for killing W. E. Thompson, and upon trial was convicted of murder in the second degree and adjudged to serve a term in the State Penitentiary as punishment therefor. Prom the judgment of conviction an appeal has been duly prosecuted to this court. It is urged that the trial court committed reversible error in admitting the dying declaration of the deceased in evidence. The declaration was made to the attending' physician immediately before being removed from the scene of the tragedy to St. Joseph’s…