Gurley v. State

Appellant was convicted •of murder in the second degree. There was proof that he (defendant) killed deceased by shooting him with a pistol. The shot took effect in the right side of deceased, near the Rip, about the seventh or eighth intercostal space. The sister of deceased was with him after the wound was inflicted and testified that more than once deceased said that he was going to die; that Ranee [defendant] had shot him and that “if he (Ranee) could see him, and see how he was suffering he didn’t believe he would have killed him for nothing.” Deceased died five days later. The objection…