CARVER v. UNITED STATES

No. 721.

160 U.S. 553 (1896)

CARVER v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 18, 1896.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William M. Cravens for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Dickinson for defendants in error.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

While in the admission of the declarations of the victim as to the facts of a homicide the utmost caution must be exercised to the end that it be satisfactorily established that they were made under the impression of almost immediate dissolution, we think that the evidence of the state of mind of Anna Maledon, in that particular, when the declaration of March 27, 1895, was made,...

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