Dacus v. State

This appeal is from a judgment of the Greene circuit court sentencing appellant to a term of imprisonment in the state penitentiary for two years, upon his conviction for the crime of voluntary manslaughter, under an indictment charging him with having killed Frank Switzer.

It is insisted for the reversal of this judgment (a) that the undisputed testimony shows that the killing was done in necessary self-defense; (b) that the alleged dying-declaration of the deceased was improperly admitted in evidence; (c) that the court erred in giving certain instructions ; (d) that it was error not to…