Fulton v. State

Appellant was convicted of the murder of James Pearce, and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. He appealed to this Court, where he assigns only one error, i. e., “the action of the trial court in refusing to admit the testimony of Melvina Greer, Irene Oliver, Callie Luster, Beatrice Smith and Alva James Peyton as to the statements made by deceased on his death bed to the effect that Eugene Thurmond had shot him. ’ ’

Eugene Thurmond was also indicted, separately, for the murder of James Pearce, but was permitted to plead *573guilty of manslaughter, receiving a sentence of three years in the…