Lewis v. State

Taylor, C. J.:

The plaintiff in error was indicted and tried for murder in the first degree at the Fall term, 1899, of the Circuit Court of Calhoun county, was convicted of murder in the second degree and from the life imprisonment sentence imposed takes writ of error.

The following question was propounded at the trial to one of the defendant’s witnesses: “Did you ever hear the defendant forbid the deceased to come on his premises, and warn him never to come on them again; if so when and where?” The State objected to the question on the ground of irrelevancy, the objection was sustained and…