Pennington v. State

The plaintiffs in error were indicted for the murder of O. B. Byrd, and found guilty of voluntary manslaughter. They have appealed in error to this court.

We have discussed the facts orally and are of opinion that the conviction is well supported by the evidence.

The principal errors of law assigned relate to the admission in evidence of a certain paper writing purporting to have been the dying declaration of Byrd. This writing is as follows:

“April 13, 1915.

“This is my statement given by my own words. I met Lacy Pennington and John Pennington. Lacy says ‘now you once had .the advantage of me,…