Opinion ID: 1925538
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: TESTIMONY OF DR. LaGARDE

Text: During her trial testimony, Dr. LaGarde testified that Mrs. Davis had told her that her husband had committed the sexual assault. This was immediately objected to and the court sustained the objection and instructed the jury to disregard the question and answer. Out of the presence of the jury, Dr. LaGarde then testified that, in getting a history of what had happened, Mrs. Davis related that it was Wendy Ann who told her it was her daddy who did it. The State then asked the court to permit the jury to hear that Mrs. Davis told Dr. LaGarde that Wendy Ann had told her that Davis was the one who assaulted her. When the jury returned, Dr. LaGarde was asked if, during her examination of Mrs. Davis she of her own personal knowledge, did she tell you anything about her husband having done this  of her own personal knowledge? She answered, No. On appeal Davis argues that he was entitled to a mistrial because of Dr. LaGarde's testimony that Mrs. Davis told her Davis had committed the assault. If there was any error in the admission of this testimony, it was cured by the court's sustaining the objection and instructing the jury to disregard it, Roundtree v. State, 568 So.2d 1173, 1178 (Miss. 1990), and also by the fact that once the jury had returned to the box, it was told that Mrs. Davis of her own personal knowledge did not know who committed the assault. Dr. LaGarde did not testify before the jury that Mrs. Davis had related to her that it was Wendy Ann who informed her en route to Carpenter's home that Davis committed the offense, but if she had done so, it would have been harmless error because Deborah Carpenter had already testified that Wendy Ann made the same statement to her. Finding no error, we affirm. AFFIRMED. ROY NOBLE LEE, C.J., and PRATHER, SULLIVAN, PITTMAN, BANKS, McRAE and ROBERTS, JJ., concur. DAN M. LEE, P.J., concurs in result only. PITTMAN, J., concurs with separate written opinion joined by HAWKINS, P.J., and BANKS and ROBERTS, JJ.