Ingram v. State

After shooting Lucile Pitts, Frank Ingram ■walked across a lot of land, called Dr. J. H. Ingram, - who was asleep, waked him, and told him how the shooting occurred.- On the trial of Frank Ingram for murder this statement made to Dr. Ingram was offered in evidence by the defendant, and was objected to by the State, “on the grounds that it was not a part of the res gestae and was a self-serving declaration.” The court sustained the objections, and the defendant made this alleged error one of the grounds of his motion for a new trial.

The statement referred to above, copied in the motion for a…