Cross v. State

Pattison, J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court. ,

William Cross, the appellant, was convicted of murder, in the second degree in the Circuit Court for Washington County. In the course of the trial a number of exceptions, were taken by the appellant to the rulings of the Court upon the admission of testimony. ,

The first exception is to the ruling of the Court in admitting a conversation had by the appellant with the deceased, John Elmer Scadden, and his sister, Stella, on the dav, and only a short time before, the alleged offense was committed, at the home of their father, Charles Scadden,…