Elliott v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for murder, punishment being assessed at sixty-five years in the penitentiary.

Witness Bigham lived about a mile west of the town of Paducah in Cottle County. On the night of the killing witness heard three shots immediately followed by “hollering.” Witness found deceased wounded and apparently attempting to reach witness’ house. Deceased told witness a white man and a negro who worked at the compress had shot him. A dying declaration of deceased was put in evidence by the state in which deceased said a white man whose name he did not know, but who was the man Mr.…