Jamison v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “is a limitation on the use of certain testimony, and allows the jury to utilize such testimony as to all relevant facts and circumstances surrounding the killing and the previous relationship between the parties, only for the purpose of assessing the punishment of the accused. This we think is an undue limitation on such testimony. We think such circumstances and relationship between the parties could also be utilized by the jury when passing upon the whole case; often times such might and does affect the guilt or innocence of the party upon trial, and would be pertinent proof relative thereto.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 156 Tex. Crim. 140 - Wheeler v. State

2. ““ ‘It was not incumbent upon the judge to give a special instruction on good character. The law permits one accused of crime to put his previous good character before the jury for their consideration. All the court is required to do is to permit the evidence to go to the jury, to be by them considered in connection with the other testimony in the case, in order to determine from the whole evidence the guilt or innocence of the accused.’ ””

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

3. “Article 1257a, [Vernon's Ann.P.C.] seems to lay down only a rule as to what evidence may be introduced on the trial of a homicide case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 156 Tex. Crim. 140 - Wheeler v. State