ELLIS v. STATE

No. 07-KA-58892.

558 So.2d 826 (1990)

Lester Lee ELLIS v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

February 28, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J.B. Garretty, Corinth, for appellant.

Mike C. Moore, Atty. Gen., Billy L. Gore, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before DAN M. LEE, P.J., and PRATHER and ROBERTSON, JJ.


ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I.

This appeal arises from a successful homicide prosecution and presents important questions concerning admissibility of the victim's verbal identification of his assailant, made some ten minutes after it happened and some five or six hours before he expired. The trial court admitted the testimony, the hearsay rule notwithstanding. We affirm.

II.

The case for the prosecution, in sum, is that in December...

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