Griggs v. State

The principal insistence of error is the admission of a statement made by deceased, shortly after receiving the shot wound from which he subsequently died; the objection being that the predicate for the admission of a dying declaration had not been properly laid. The predicate made the basis for the declaration was, as testified to by the witness Leach:

“The first I saw of Clark [deceased] he was up on the bank hollering fpr us. I went immediately. I talked to him there. He asked some of us to carry him home, that he was dying. He was shot, wounded at the time.” “Deceased said he drove up and…