Turner v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “Appellant first assigns as error the admission of testimony that the bullet that killed deceased also struck and injured the one-year old baby deceased was holding in her arms when she was shot. In the first place, most of this evidence concerning the shooting of the child went into evidence without objection, but it was not error to admit this evidence because it was part of the res gestae. The same bullet that killed deceased also struck the child she was holding in her arms. Walker v. State, 201 Miss. 780 , 30 So.2d 239 . ( 141 So.2d at 250 ).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 446 So. 2d 1010 - Sharp v. State