Echols v. State

1. Where, upon the trial of one charged with murder, a third person is permitted to testify that, at the time the victim of the homicide lay dying of a gunshot-wound in the defendant’s house, the defendant stated that he had shot him and had intended to kill him, and that the defendant’s wife had replied, “Don’t say that, say something else,” such testimony as to that conversation between the defendant and his wife was relevant as illustrating intent, and was not inadmissible on the ground that the wife could not testify against her husband. Kennedy v. State, 191 Ga. 22 (5) (11 S. E. 2d,…