Corbin v. State

Duckworth, Chief Justice.

1. One phase of the evidence shows that the defendant and the deceased and a soldier were comparing .22 pistols, and the defendant and the deceased “got to ‘rasseling’ and the next thing . . . the gun . . . kicked . . . and there was a loud report and Oscar fell over.” This evidenice, submitted in the form of a statement signed by the accused and the testimony of two police officers that the defendant had made a statement after his arrest which is approximately the same version of the shooting and killing of the deceased, would have authorized a conviction of…