Court Opinion

ID: 9851410
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 05:12:13.727422+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:20:55.572365
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PARKS, Justice,
dissenting:
This case should be reversed and remanded for a new trial.
In reading the transcript, it is apparent the mother of the victim, K.W., was permit*706ted to testify to what C.F. had told her had happened to K.W. This is a flagrant use of hearsay testimony, and one that does not fall within the exceptions to the rule. Any statement taken by the police from C.F. occurred too remote in time to be an “excited utterance” exception to the hearsay rule. I feel that Munn v. State, 459 P.2d 628 (Okl.Cr.1967), cited by the majority, does not apply.