Brookins v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree and his punishment assessed at twenty-five years confinement in the State penitentiary.

There is but one bill of exceptions in the record. In it it is claimed that the testimony of Dr. G. D. Mahon ought not to have been admitted in evidence. The doctor testified that he was called to see Dan Boyd, deceased, shortly after he was shot; that he examined the wound and found it was a fatal one, and so informed Dan; that Dan said he believed he was going to die and that he did not mind dying. That he told Dan he was going to die,…