Court Opinion

ID: 9769228
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Date Created: 2023-08-29 14:40:26.069785+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:58.477313
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state’s motion for rehearing
WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.
The state requests that we “clarify the procedure to be utilized in making the requested offense report or written statement available for the record”.
First, we express the view that only in cases where the interests of justice so require should the defendant or his counsel be denied the privilege of inspecting a previous statement of a state’s witness after he has testified on direct examination.
We said in Gaskin v. State, supra, that there may be cases where the interests of justice require that inspection of such a statement by the defendant or his counsel be denied even after the trial.
When a statement, withheld on such ground, is demanded for the purpose of the record on appeal, we know of no reason why it cannot be made a part of the bill of exception by reference, the statement or copy or reproduction thereof properly certified being sent up with the record in a separate sealed envelope with endorsement thereon showing that it is a part of the bill of exception for the inspection of the Court only.
The state’s motion for rehearing is overruled-