Supreme Court of Alabama January 15, 1855 (Eckles v. Bates)

CHILTON, C. J.

—We fully recognize tbe doctrine, as asserted in Rowland v. Walker, 18 Ala. R. 749, that the declarations of a slave, made when sick, relative to the symptoms and nature of the disease under which he is laboring, whether made to a physician or other person, are admissible as original evidence.