Burks v. State
Burks v. State
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
This appeal is from a conviction of the crime of murder. According to the evidence for the state, appellant met the deceased, asked him for his (appellant’s) dime, and, upon deceased declining with an oath to give him his dime, that appellant shot and killed him. The evi
Reversed and remanded.
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- Berk Burks v. State
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- Syllabus
- Homicide. Previous difficulty. Threats. Exclusion of evidence. In a prosecution for homicide where there was a conflict as to how the difficulty began it was error to exclude testimony offered by defendant to show the details of a difficulty between deceased and defendant shortly before the killing and the threats made by the deceased at that time and shortly afterwards against defendant.