Clarke v. State

Quillian, Justice.

The verdict was supported by sufficient competent evidence. The record discloses no merit in the general grounds of the motion for new trial.

Ground 4 of the amended motion for new trial complains that, over timely objection of movant’s counsel, the trial judge admitted the following testimony of a State’s witness: “I had just walked in the office and was on the telephone at the time. Mr. Howell came in the door, my office door from outside and he told me . . . ‘There are some suspicious looking Negroes around here at the station,’ and I was listening to him, I put my hand on…