State v. . Thompson

The jurisdiction in this Court in an action of this kind is to review, upon appeal, any decision of the courts below upon any matter of law or legal inferences. Constitution of North Carolina, Art. IV, sec. 8.

The first exceptions set out in appellant’s brief, Nos. 1 and 2, relate to the admission in evidence of certain statements made by the deceased to the effect that the defendant had shot him, offered by the State upon the theory of their being dying declarations. It is contended by the defendant that no proper basis for the introduction in evidence of such statements was laid. It is…