Herring v. State

The Court of Appeals propounded to this court the following question, and desires instruction thereon as being necessary to a decision of the above cases: “Alfred Adkins swore out a warrant against Emmett Echols, charging him with a felony, and Echols was subsequently indicted for such felony in the superior court of Chattooga County, Alfred Adkins being a witness for the State. While the case was pending in court and before its trial, Emmett Echols and Monroe Herring went to the residence of Fillmore Adkins, the father of Alfred Adkins, and Echols said to Fillmore Adkins, in substance, that…