Lipscomb v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 1986 · most notably 25 Cal. 3d 283 - People v. Brigham (1979), Commonwealth v. Polian (1934)
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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Most-quoted passages
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““Mr. Miller (attorney for the plaintiffs): We desire to submit this matter to the court out of the presence of the Jury. (Jury sent out of court.) Q. Now, if Charley made any statement to you at that time, tell the court what he said. A. Well, he told me he was going to die; that he had been dead; and that the good Lord had sent him back to tell me that Dr. Lipscomb had killed him with a capsule he had given him that night; and that Guy Jack had his life insured, and that he had hired Dr. Lipscomb to kill him. (Plaintiff objects to the statement of the witness: (l) ’That he was going to die,’ and separately to that part (2) ‘that he had been dead,’ and (3) ‘that the good Lord had. sent him back to tell me that Dr. Lipscomb bad killed him with a capsule he had given him that night’; (4) ‘that Guy Jack had Ms life insured, etc.’; and (5) plaintiff objects to the entire statement, as a whole, making each of said objections separately and ¡severally, upon the ground that said statement, and the separate parts objected to. are each irrelevant, immaterial, and incompetent.) Tlie Court: I am going to sustain the objection \o this part: ‘That he had been dead, and the good Lord had sent him hack to tell me:’ and will not permit it to go before the jury. The other, taken in connection wiili all of the facts in the caso, * * * I will overrule the objection to, arid the jury will consider it, subject to the instructions of the court. (Plaintiff excepted separately. 'File jury were retur”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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