Brown v. State

on rehearing.

June 3. 1914.

HARPER, Judge.

This motion for rehearing has been pending for some time, and attorneys for appellant have filed a very able and exhaustive brief, citing many authorities, principally upon whether or not the statements of appellant and his wife made to Mr. and Mrs. Drinkard and Berney Brown that appellant had a few days prior to the conversation rescued her from a creek when she was about to drown, were admissible. Appellant was permitted to testify to the fact he and deceased had gone in bathing, and after he had gone out of the water and was putting on his clothing,…