State v. . Brabham

Shepheed, J.:

The first exception is addressed to the admission of testimony as to the manner of the prisoner shortly after the commission of the homicide. The testimony tended to show that the homicide was committed between eleven and twelve o’clock on Saturday night the 11th of April, 1891; that about twelve o’clock of the same night the prisoner went to the room of the witnesses Wyche and Davis; that his actions there were unnatural; that he spoke hurriedly and in a low tone, and that his hand trembled and he seemed nervous.

Such testimony alone would raise but a slight conjecture of the…