Turner v. State

Almand, Justice.

James Turner, under an indictment charging him with the murder of Joe Richardson by striking, hitting, and beating him with a hammer and other blunt instrument, was found guilty without a recommendation to' mercy. His motion for a new trial, on the general grounds and one special ground, being denied, he assigns error on that order.

The only special ground of the motion for a new trial complains that the court erred in admitting in evidence certain testimony of a witness for the State, over the objection that such testimony was not a part of the res gestae.

One Bessie Porter, a…