Harrison v. State

Gardner, Judge.

1. One of the grounds of the amended motion complained of the overruling of the defendant’s motion to exclude the testimony of the prosecuting witness, Mrs. George Henry Merritt, who had testified that she met the defendant and asked him, “Did you shoot the hogs?” The defendant had said: “Yes, I shot them and I am going to bring my rifle with me tomorrow and kill every one of them.” The record reveals that the prosecutrix heard gun shots in the defendant’s field which adjoined hers, and that she started toward the Harrison field and met Harrison, in company with another person,…