Opinion ID: 1924213
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Heading: I-A The Photographic Evidence

Text: The asserted errors in the admission of the photographs are (1) violation of the best evidence rule and (2) the immateriality of the subject-matter of the photographs, i. e., various food items. We need not decide the merits of these contentions. The State introduced the photographs for the purpose of connecting the defendants with the items stolen from the Tremont School. For such purpose, the photographs were merely cumulative since the testimony of Clyde Porter, Kirk Clark, Jeffrey Porter and Leonard Higgins, all admitted without objection, had abundantly established that the food Clyde Porter observed in the possession of the defendants had come from the Tremont School. Thus, error, if any, in the admission of the photographs into evidence was plainly harmless.