Anderson v. State

1. The accused was convicted of murder, and recommended to mercy. There was no eye-witness to the homicide, and the accused denied having had anything to do with it. The State relied, for a conviction, largely upon evidence of dying declarations of the deceased; and exceptions to the admission of *162this evidence form the principal grounds of the motion for a new trial. It appeared that at the time the declarations were made the deceased’s throat was cut and his windpipe severed; that it was with great difficulty that he could articulate at all, or that those present could understand what he…