Crawford v. State

The defendant appeals from a conviction for the homicide of C. M. Bragg, the conviction being for voluntary manslaughter with a maximum punishment fixed at four years in the State prison.

The three assignments of error are (1) the admission of a dying declaration, (2) permitting the defendant’s character witnesses to be questioned as to whether they had heard or known about defendant having cut with a knife a third party on a previous occasion, and (3) the alleged insufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict.

The homicide occurred about 3:00 p. m. in the afternoon at the home of…