State v. Wilson

LAKE, Justice.

The defendant assigns as error: (1) The admission in evidence, over objection, of the shotgun, he contending it had not been identified as the weapon used in the shooting of Alston; (2) the failure of the State to prove the cause of death and the admission of alleged hearsay evidence as to the fact of death; and (3) the failure of the court to instruct the jury, as requested by the defendant, that “when a person commits an act without being conscious thereof, such act is not a crime even though if committed by a conscious person it would be a crime.” There is no merit in any of…