Ragland v. State

BOULDIN, Justice.

Appellant, Judge Ragland, was indicted for the murder of Robert Capps, by shooting him with a pistol; was convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment fixed at death.

The admission of certain statements of the deceased to the witness, C. R. Sellers, as dying declarations, is questioned for want of sufficient predicate;

Evidence for the state was to the effect that the deceased was found in his sleeping quarters in the rear of his store building in Opelika early Sunday morning, lying on the floor, suffering from a gunshot wound entering just above the collar-bone…