Teasley v. State

Bell, Justice.

1. Where on the trial of one indicted for murder, a witness testified that he had talked to the-defendant “in jail, he sent for me one day and wanted to talk to me. He made a statement to me that he was drinking a little bit, and he said he wouldn’t have done that if he hadn’t been drinking,” but testified to nothing else that would more clearly indicate the meaning of the statement, “he wouldn’t have done that,” and the defendant in his statement on the trial denied the killing — Held, that the evidence as stated above was insufficient to. authorize a finding that the defendant…