176 Ind. App. 114 - Swaney v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 1997
6 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Milton v. Wainwright · Ashby v. State · Cook v. State · Turner v. State · 159 Ind. App. 387 - Atkins v. State
Most-quoted passages
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““Evidence of flight is properly admitted into evidence because of its relevancy as tending to show a consciousness of guilt on the part of a defendant. As stated in Atkins v. State (1974), 159 Ind.App. 387 , 307 N.E.2d 76 : ‘... Evidence of flight or other actions calculated to hide a crime or effect an escape is admissible as evidence of guilt. It is for the trier of fact to assign the weight to such evidence. Turner v. State (1970), 255 Ind. 427, 429 , 265 N.E.2d 11 ____’ (our emphasis) It is the opinion of this court that Swaney’s actions can properly be viewed as a clandestine attempt to perfect an escape, and consequently a form of flight, upon which evidence was properly introduced at trial and upon which the jury was properly instructed.” Thus, the public records revealing McPherson’s flight were properly admitted. Adequate foundation for their admission was laid by the State pursuant to IC 34-1-17-7, which provides for authentication of public records.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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