State v. Galvano

Pennewill, C. J.:

Under the authority of the Delaware cases referred to, as well as what we conceive to be the preponderance of authority outside of this state, we feel constrained to overrule the objection.

Refreshing his memory from his transcribed shorthand notes, taken at the time, the witness then testified to the confession of Galvano that he had killed Cline in this county and state; that he had killed him with a pistol and the mode of such killing.

The State called as a witness one George W. Johnson, who did not answer. Whereupon, the respective counsel in the case conferred with the…