Montague v. State

Appellant, Walter Montague, was charged with murder in the first degree by shooting a Negro, Ralph Donaldson, with a thirty-eight calibre pistol and killing him. He was convicted of murder in the second degree and 1ns punishment assessed at twenty-one years in the State Penitentiary. From the judgment is this appeal.

For reversal, appellant has set out in his motion for a new trial thirteen assignments of alleged errors, which he has grouped in the following propositions :

“1. The trial court committed reversible error in excluding evidence, offered by the defendant, tending to show the…