Opinion ID: 1097589
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Heading: did the jury hear prejudicial hearsay testimony?

Text: When Bobbie Taylor was on the witness stand, she was asked what happened next, and she replied, Dewayne called me, said, come here, Bobbie Dale, quick! Says, Lee Muriel done stobbed... . An objection on hearsay grounds was made. The prosecutor replied that the statement was not offered for the truth of the matter asserted and was a part of the res gestae. Again no authority is cited to support this assignment of error, and under Redmond, supra, we need not address it. Res gestae evidence admissibility is largely a matter of the trial court's sound discretion at any rate. Merchants Co. v. Hutchinson, 186 So.2d 760 (Miss. 1966). Allowing this statement into evidence reaches toward the far frontier of sound discretion, but it is not an abuse. We draw attention to the passing into history of the res gestae exception. In all cases tried after January 1, 1986, the effective date of the Mississippi Rules of Evidence, this rule will no longer be available to litigants. Miss.R.Evid. 803, see comment (1). The conviction and sentence stand affirmed. AFFIRMED. PATTERSON, C.J., WALKER and ROY NOBLE LEE, P.JJ., and HAWKINS, DAN M. LEE, PRATHER, ROBERTSON and ANDERSON, JJ., concur.