138 Tex. Crim. 660 - Walker v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “Bill of Exception no. four complains of the ruling of the court in refusing to permit the appellant’s wife to testify to the things her husband said to her in Mills County late in the afternoon of April 1, 1939, that being the date on which the offense is alleged to have been committed. She was attempting to prove an alibi, and the statement which the appellant made to her at that time was unsworn and would have been self-serving. It was hearsay testimony from this witness. We are not able to understand any theory upon which it would have been admissible.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hollins v. State