Harris v. State

1. One ground of the motion for a new trial assigns error on the ruling of the court admitting “ in evidence for the State a coat purporting to be the coat of the deceased and taken off his body after he was killed, with certain alleged bullet-holes in it.” The only objection made at the time, as stated in the motion, was “ that the identification was not sufficient.” It is stated in this ground of the motion: “Movant shows that the father of the deceased testified that he knew the coat, that it was Tolly’s [the deceased], and was tbe coat he had on when killed, and was' taken off the dead…