Evans v. State

The indictment was for murder.

The predicate for the dying declaration was laid by the state, through the witnesses Dr. Robinson and Lewis, that about two or three weeks before Jennie’s death she called her mother, the witness Lewis, to her bedside, and said: “I have something to tell you; I think I am going to die.” This was sufficient to authorize the question: “What did Jennie state to you about being shot?” Patterson v. State, 171 Ala. 2, 54 South. 696; McEwen v. State, 152 Ala. 38, 44 South. 619; Gibson v. State, 193 Ala. 12, 69 South. 533; Martin v. State, 196 Ala. 584, 71 South. 693;…