State v. Bridges

The defendant was charged with the murder of one Elmer Duinnington, and was convicted of manslaughter. 1-Iis appeal brings-up two bills of exception; of which, one is-an application for á new trial, based solely on the alleged insufficiency of the evidence-to convict, and therefore presenting nothing for our consideration; the other being a bill-reserved to the refusal of the trial judge to-admit evidence of the alleged dangerous character of the deceased.

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“The settled jurisprudence of' this state is. that, in a prosecution for murder, evidence of the dangerous character of the deceased and…