Spradlin v. State

The first special ground of the amended motion for new trial assigns error on the admission of testimony that Ambrose Spradlin, after returning from Hyatt’s store, informed a witness that Brazeal was trying to kill his sister, and that he got “the large” riñe and loaded and unloaded the cartridge chamber, stating at the time that he was going over there. The testimony was objected to on the ground that, no conspiracy having been proved at that time, it was inadmissible as against the defendant, Frank Spradlin.

Other evidence in the case tended to show that trouble had been brewing between the…