Smith v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant prosecutes this appeal from a conviction for manslaughter. While there are three bills of exception in the record, in the argument of appellant’s attorney made in open court and in the brief filed, he presents but one of them—the one complaining of the admission of the alleged dying declaration in evidence. The other two complain that the court was in error in admitting the statement of appellant’s wife and his reply, “Oh, go back to the house—I have done nothing hut kill a d—n dog.” If the remark of the wife had not been necessary to make plain the remark of…