Johnson v. State

Grice, Justice.

B. F. Johnson was tried and found guilty of murder, with a recommendation. To his motion for new trial on the general grounds he filed an amendment containing two special grounds. The first of these complained of the court’s exclusion of the evidence of Nellie Mae Watts, who testified as a witness for the defendant: “ Bobert Bailey said he killed a negro, and I asked him who it was, and he said, that is all right, I would find out before day in the morning; and I later found out, when I left. . . Bobert would not say who he had killed . . I asked him who he killed.” The movant…