State v. Adamo

— The defendant was convicted of the crime of killing one Joseph Gracio, and has appealed to this court for redress.

It is not necessary here to go into any of the details of the killing, except to say that it was done on or about the 4th day of August, 1921.(1) The appellant offered to prove by one of his witnesses that, about the middle of 1916, the deceased, in a quarrel with the witness, made a movement to his hip as if to draw a gun and made threats of violence against the witness, and that such facts were related to the appellant and were known to him prior to the commission of the…