Taylor v. State

Gregory Taylor appeals his judgment and sentence after a jury found him guilty of possession of a firearm by a violent career criminal.1 He argues that the trial court reversibly erred by allowing inadmissible hearsay into evidence. Although the trial court’s analysis on the hearsay issue was faulty, we affirm because the statements at issue were admissible under the excited utterance exception to the hearsay rule.

At trial, Taylor’s ex-girlfriend, Tambra Bacon, testified that shortly after their relationship ended, she was driving her new boyfriend’s car to a McDonald’s when she saw Taylor…