Court Opinion

ID: 7056685
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 07:07:12.717952+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:12:00.739348
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Concurring Opinion.
Morris, J.
The petition for rehearing is correctly overruled, because of the misconduct of counsel for the State, but, in my opinion, the evidence of witnesses for appellee, given on a former hearing, was correctly admitted on the showing that at the time of the second trial, they resided outside of Indiana. Reichers v. Dammeier (1910), 45 Ind. App. 208, 90 N. E. 644; 5 Ency. Evidence 904; Robertson v. *198State (1912), 63 Tex. Cr. Rep. 216, Ann. Cas. 1913 C 465, note; McGovern v. Hays & Smith (1902), 75 Vt. 104, and cases cited; Atchison, etc., R. Co. v. Baker (1913), 37 Okl. 48, 130 Pac. 577; Emerson v. Burnett (1898), 11 Colo. App. 86; 2 Wigmore, Evidence §§1401, 1402, 1404; Edwards v. State (1913), 9 Okl. Crim. Rep. 306, 44 L. R. A. (N. S.) 707; Atchison, etc., R. Co. v. Osborn (1902), 91 Am. St. 193, 195, note; Spencer v. State (1907), 13 Ann. Cas. 973, note; State v. Nelson (1904), 1 Ann. Cas. 471, note.
Cox, C. J., concurs in this conclusion.
Note. — Reported in 104 N. E. 765; 105 N. E. 898. As to the admissibility of testimony on preliminary examination of witnesses not available at time of trial, see 25 L. R. A. (N. S.) 868. As to the competency in criminal cases of the former testimony of an absent witness, see 1 Ann. Cas. 471; 13 Ann. Cas. 973; Ann. Cas. 1913 C 464. As to admissibility of evidence of deceased or absent witness given at a former trial, see 61 Am. St. 886. See, also, under (1) 25 Cyc. 85; (3) 17 Cyc. 539, 538; (4) 12 Cyc. 901; (6) 12 Cyc. 912.