109 Miss. 744
Decided March 15, 1915
Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1915-03-15
AppeaTj from the circuit court of Perry county. Hon. J. M. Arnold, Judge. William Snell was convicted of murder and appeals.
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¶1delivered the opinion of the court.
¶2It cannot be said from the evidence that the deceased’s condition and state of mind at the time he told Virgie Bolton that defendant shot was such as to bring the statement within the rule governing dying declarations; consequently, it should not have been admitted.
¶3Reversed and remanded.