COLE, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.
We shall in this case determine whether a statement given to police by a witness to a double murder five hours after the incident took place and after almost two hours of questioning by a police officer falls within any exception to the rule against hearsay. We set forth the facts crucial to our discussion of the issue.
At approximately two o'clock in the afternoon of August 31, 1979, Anna Byrd happened to be in...
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