Opinion
4 Div. 75.
December 18, 1934. Rehearing Denied April 2, 1935.
Appeal from Circuit Court, Crenshaw County; A. E. Gamble, Judge.
Dock Wingard was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, and he appeals.
Affirmed.
Certiorari denied by Supreme Court in Wingard v. State, 230 Ala. 303, 161 So. 107.
W. H. Stoddard, of Luverne, for appellant.
Thos. E. Knight, Jr., Atty. Gen., for the State.
The record in this case presents no new or novel questions of law. The evidence, with slight conflict, discloses a willful, deliberate, and premeditated murder. The jury after having all the evidence and the charge of the court rendered a verdict convicting the defendant of manslaughter in the first decree.
The rulings of the court on the admission of evidence were free from prejudicial error, and the charges refused to defendant were either abstract or were covered fully by the court in his oral charge.
We find no error in the record, and the judgment is affirmed.
Affirmed.
On Rehearing.
It is insisted in brief of counsel on rehearing that the trial court was in error in sustaining the state's objection to the statement of the defendant's witness Botts that about two hours by sun on the day of and before the homicide, defendant came to the field where witness and others were picking peanuts and said he was going hunting to kill a rabbit. This was in no way connected with the homicide and tended to prove nothing connected with the crime charged. Such declarations before the officer are not admissible in favor of accused unless a part of the res gestæ. Ex parte State, 199 Ala. 255, 74 So. 366; Jones v. State, 174 Ala. 53, 57 So. 31.
Application overruled.