Patterson v. State

This case is before us upon the defendant’s (appellant’s) petition to transfer. Said petition is now granted. The decision and the opinion of the Court of Appeals, Third District filed July 24, 1974 and reported in 314 N.E.2d 92 is hereby vacated, but the judgment of the trial court is, nevertheless, affirmed.

Numerous issues were presented by the appeal and will be treated herein. We go first to the “hearsay evidence” issue as it is that issue that occasioned the grant of transfer, in hopes of making a clear pronouncement of our departure from an ancient application of the hearsay rule — one…