State v. Tate

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Watkins, J.

The defendant prosecutes this appeal from a verdiet convicting him of the crime of murder, and a sentence to the extreme penalty of the law, relying upon a single bill of exceptions which presents the question of the admissibility of a proces verbal oj the coroner’s inquest for the purpose of establishing the fact of the death of the deceased.

The bill of exceptions relates that the State offered the- proces verbal of the finding oi the coroner’s jury for the purpose of proving *1184the fact of the death of the deceased, whereupon counsel for the…