State v. Gadsden

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Woods.

The defendants, Limerick Gadsden and John Trip, were convicted of arson, with recommendation to mercy.

1 The first ground of appeal is that the Circuit Court erred in allowing the witness, W. J. Stribling, to give his impression formed from a conversation he held with the defendant Gadsden a day or two before the fire, instead of confining- him to' a statement of the substance of the conversation. When this witness had given the conversation in substance, undertaking in some degree to use Gadsden’s precise words, which indicated…