Dying Declarations
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Declarations made by one at the point of death, or believing himself to be. They are admissible in evidence only when made by the victim of a homicide (56 N. Y. 103; 35 Ohio St. 78) as to facts relating to the homicide toi which the dying person could have testified (30 Mich. 431; 124 Mo. 397), and under a full conviction of impending death (126 111. 81; 48 Mich. 474). They are admissible only in a prosecution for the killing of the declarant.
49 Iowa, 238.