Ellis v. State

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 ease for the prosecution, in sum, is that in December of 1985, Lester Lee Ellis, who had been living in Washington, D.C., came back to Alcorn County, Mississippi, and on December 17, he shot and killed his seventy-six…