Harris v. State

This is an appeal from a conviction of murder followed by a life sentence to the penitentiary. The deceased was assassinated while asleep in his room by a shot fired through a window thereof. No one saw the person who fired the shot, and the conviction rests wholly on circumstantial evidence. One of the circumstances on which the conviction rests, and the only one necessary to be here set forth, was the conduct of the two dogs who are said to have followed a track from near the window through which the deceased was shot to the appellant’s home, and to have identified the appellant as the…