75 Tex. Crim. 534 - Collins v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. ““Another bill of exceptions recites that the court permitted the introduction of the evidence of Mr. Veazey, the auditor of the El Paso Herald, that the defendant had a credit on the books of the Herald Pub lishing Company for two hundred and forty-seven dollars. As this is presented we think the objections were well taken. This matter should be connected up in some way to make it admissible. The fact that defendant had $247 to his credit in the Herald Publishing Company did not prove or tend to prove, so far as the matter is shown, any issue in this case. Possibly or probably it might be connected up so as to make it admissible. If the state was trying to show that he was publishing to the world through a newspaper that he was practicing medicine and this money was placed there to pay for such advertisements in that paper, it might be admissible, but it must be connected in some way so as to make it admissible. “Another bill in the same connection shows the court admitted, over appellant’s objections, an advertisement that on its face showed it was that of another person and not the defendant, and copies of the ‘El Paso Daily Herald,’ containing advertisements of ‘the A. T. Still Osteopathic Infirmary, Ira W. Collins Physician and Surgeon in Chief,’ and advertising said infirmary as a hospital, for the cure of diseased persons, to which action appellant urged objections. If Ira W. Collins authorized the publication it would be admissible against him, but until that was shown”

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