Burford v. State

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, on an indictment charging murder in the first degree, for the killing of it. O. Lawhorn,-and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary.

• The first assignment of error urged for a' reversal of the case relates to the refusal of the court to permit the witness, Dr. C. M. Bouth to answer a question as to about how long, in his opinion, he thought appellant would live. It was developed in the testimony of this and other witnesses that appellant was afflicted with Hodgkin’s disease and had been so afflicted for about two years, and that a…