Dowell v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““When Maud Helton was on the stand, she was asked on cross-examination if shortly after the shooting and on the same day, she and her husband did not drive down to White Star, and there meet Charles Gurley and Charles Miller, and that Miller asked her and her husband in her presence how the shooting occurred, and Elijah Helton answered that he was sitting at the piano when appellant fired the pistol, that the 'first shot went through his cap, that there had been no trouble before the shooting, and that no words whatever had passed between appellant and Lanham before, appellant shot Lanham. Over appellant’s objection, Maud, .Helton was required to answer the question, when she - said that she did not remember whether her husband had made any such statement or not. Later Gurley was introduced by the commonwealth, and testified that Helton had made the statement concerning which Maud ■ Helton had been interrogated. ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dowell v. Commonwealth