Bennett v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, upon an indictment charging him with murder in the first degree, was tried in the Circuit Court of Jackson County and convicted and sentenced for manslaughter, and seeks reversal of such judgment by writ of error.

A witness for the State testified to an ante mortem statement made to him by the deceased as to the facts relative to how, when and where and from whom he received his death wound, this ante mortem statement was objected to on the ground that no proper predicate had been laid for its introduction, but the court…