Johnson v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

The trial of this case in the court below, resulted in a verdict of murder in the second degree, with a penalty of seven years in the penitentiary.

While the witness Blythe was testifying in behalf of the State, he was permitted to state, "I heard George Wilson say to defendant, after the killing that night, 'Nannie, you have killed Della/ and defendant turned around and did not say anything.” The objection urged to this testimony was its incompetency. If the testimony was admissible for any purpose this objection was too general. The general exception of incompetency…