Patrick v. State

My vote for reversal of judgment in this case is founded upon the proposition that, where suicide or assassination has become the turning point of the controversy in a criminal trial for alleged murder sought to be established wholly upon circumstantial evidence adduced by the State, acts and declarations of the deceased person made during his life time are admissible in evidence on behalf of the accused to show a deliberate design or intention entertained on the part of the deceased to destroy himself under circumstances indicating murder in order to fortify the collection of a large…