Lockhart v. State

DAVIDSOE, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was given sixteen years in the penitentiary under a conviction of murder in the second degree.

Several bills of exception were reserved to the ruling of the court admitting in evidence certain statements made by deceased twenty or thirty minutes after he was shot, some of them perhaps within less time.

1. Mrs. Ollie Branch, widow of the deceased, was permitted to state that some five minutes after the difficulty in which her husband was injured, he asked her to hold up his head, and in response to an inquiry propounded to him by her, as to whether or not he…