Childs v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “It will be observed that this was very important and vital testimony for the defendant, and the mere reading to the jury from the application, and the admission that this witness, if present, would have so testified, would not cure the error of the court in trying the case, in the absence of this witness, if the testimony was not cumulative as is contended here by the Attorney General's office . . . It is our opinion, moreover, that the testimony of the witness Crum, who was a disinterested person, could not be considered cumulative under the circumstances, for we think that, instead of Crum's testimony being cumulative, it would have been strictly corroborative of the testimony of appellant and his infant son.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 843 So. 2d 34 - Bryant v. State

2. “But whether we say it was corroborative, or additional proof of the fact sworn to by the appellant and his son, and in this sense was cumulative, can make no difference, as we see it, because, in no view, do we think the testimony of Crum would have been useless or unnecessary as being cumulative; it was valuable testimony. Therefore the court erred in putting the appellant to trial without the witness Crum.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 843 So. 2d 34 - Bryant v. State