State v. Gilliam

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Jones.

The defendant was indicted and tried at Newberry, February term, 1903, for the murder of his wife, Rachael Gilliam. The jury found him guilty, with a recommendation to mercy, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment, from which judgment he now appeals upon exceptions to rulings as to the admissibility of testimony, to the charge to the jury and to the refusal of motion for new trial.

1 The first exception assigns error in allowing the witness, Will Hill, to testify to a conversation which took place between the defendant and the…