Arnold v. State

In the small hours of the morning Leon G-ary was called to the door of his home, in the city of Little Rock, and shot three times, through the wire screen of the door, and, when he fell, his assailant entered the room and shot, him twice more.

A sergeant of the police force, who was on duty at the police station, testified that he received a call at 2:30 a. m., advising him of the shooting, and Gary was carried to the city hospital where he died at 7 that morning. Before dying he made a statement, in which he said that he was fully aware of his impending death, and that appellant, Byron…