McDonald v. State

On Rehearing.

In the application for rehearing our attention is directed, for the first time, to the ruling of the court, wherein the court allowed the state to .prove by one Bowden, the sheriff Of the county, that he (the sheriff) did swear out the affidavit upon which the prosecution of this appellant was based, and that he remembered the time when the defendant, Will Manning, Will Neville, and Will Brown were said to have a keg of whisky near Mr. Rawls’ crossing; and said affidavit of the sheriff in the county court was admitted in evidence as a part of the state’s case; all this, over the…