Bumpus v. State

Smith, O. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a death sentence on a conviction of murder. The assignments of error are to the effect:(1) That the evidence does not disclose that the deceased, a woman, died as the result of the wounds inflicted on her by the appellant: and(2) That the judge of the court below made a certain statement in the presence of the jury that was prejudicial to Ihe appellant.

No witness, except one whose testimony was excluded, testified directly that the deceased died from the effect of her wounds; but, without such, the evidence not only…