State v. Yee Wee

Citations

• 7 Idaho 188
• 61 P. 588
• 1900 Ida. LEXIS 34

Syllabus

<p>CRIMINAL Law — Evidence.—The evidence examined and held to be-sufficient to justify verdict of murder in first degree.</p> <p>Same — Dying Declarations. — An ante-mortem statement as to the-cause of death, made by the deceased soon after receiving an injury from which he died, made when death was apparently imminent, and while the deceased believed that he was about to die, is admissible in evidence as against the defendant, on the charge of murdering the deceased, although deceased had not been informed' by a physician that he was about to die.</p> <p>Appellate Jurisdiction. — Upon appeal in a criminal case, the jurisdiction of the appellate court is confined to a review of the case made' in the trial court.</p> <p>(Syllabus by the court.)</p>