Collins v. State

Defendant appeals from the judgment of the trial court by which he has been sentenced to suffer death.

Exceptions reserved relate to rulings on evidence, to one ruling as to the competency of jurors, and the overruling of defendant’s motion for a new trial. We state briefly the grounds of our conclusions as to such of the exceptions as seem in any degree to require comment.

The state’s case was that defendant and deceased, having had differences and a difficulty about defendant’s attentions to the wife of deceased, and defendant having made threats against the life of deceased, the latter with…