Hill v. State

The evidence tended to show that the deceased was shot with a pistol about 10 or 11 o’clock Sunday night, the 30th of December; that the ball entered the right side of the neck and almost severed the spinal cord, paratyzing the body from the neck down; that the physician informed him the night he was wounded that he was very seriously injured; that he lingered and died on January 4th; that his father came from Brooks county to see him; that he told his father “he did not expect to live.” The evidence was sufficient to lay the foundation for the admission, as dying declarations, of the…