Rains v. State

ON APPELLANT'S MOTION FOR REHEARING.

HAWKINS, Presiding Judge.

In his motion for rehearing it is forcibly urged by appellant that we erred in our original opinion in holding that bill of exception number seven presented no error.

The bill reflects the following occurrence. Appellant had testified that he shot deceased in self-defense, and after he had fallen appellant picked up near deceased’s body a large dirk, which was the knife exhibited to the jury. The State then proved by some of the grand jurors that while appellant was testifying before the grand jury he was asked whether or not he had…