State v. Rosette

The accused was indicted for murder. He was tried, and the jury returned the following verdict:

“We, the jury, find the prisoner at the bar, William Rosette, guilty without capital punishment.”

Erom this verdict and a sentence of the court to life imprisonment, the defendant has appealed.

There are two bills of exception in the record.

Bill No. 1.

This bill was reserved to the admission in evidence of the dying declaration of the deceased. The state proposed to prove a dying declaration made by the deceased to her mother while on a Texas & Pacific train, en route to the1 Charity Hospital at New…