Redd v. State

1. When on a trial for murder the dying declarations of the deceased have been introduced against the accused, it is competent for the latter to impeach these declarations by showing that 'the deceased, because of general bad character, was unworthy of belief. Nesbit v. The State, 43 Ga. 239; 1 Bishop Crim. Proc. §§1209-1211; 3 Rice, Ev. (Crim.), §340; Wharton, Crim. Ev. §§298, 302; 6 Am. & Eng. Enc. Law, notes on pp. 131-133, and see Battle v. The State, 74 Ga. 101; State v. Thomason, 1 Jones (N. C.), 274; People v. Lawrence, 21 Cal. 368; Commonwealth v. Cooper, 81 Am. Dec. 762; Felder v.…