Jones v. State

Ben Jones, appellant, was indicted on a charge of murder, tried at the August, 1927, term of the court, convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced by the court to serve a term of ten years in the state penitentiary.

■ The facts in this case were at issue between the state and the defendant, and the testimony for the state, if believed, warranted' the jury in convicting the defendant of murder.

The main objection urged by the appellant for a reversal of this case is that the court erred in admitting the dying declaration of the deceased, because the statement was not made under a sense of…