Rice v. Jackson

A direct confrontation between statements bearing on the outcome of a case and rules of evidence which seek to exclude considera tion of such statements are the makings for a lively lawsuit. And no less lively is the appeal, for it creates a fabric which is capable of confounding both lawyer and layman, reaching back, as it does, into the dim beginnings of the rules of evidence governing what is “admissible” and what shall be considered “inadmissible.”

To set the scene more fully, we must take note that the principal character in the events which comprise this appeal is one Leon Harter, who is…