Shockley v. Henslee

While no question was raised in the trial court as to the admissibility of the statements made by the deceased child on three different occasions, the first made to the ambulance attendants on the way to the hospital, the second made to the doctors at the hospital, and the third made to the father of the deceased child some thirty days thereafter, and no contention was made by the parties relating to the probative value of this evidence, and while this evidence may be sufficient* to pierce the pleadings, or tended to disprove one of the material elements of the plaintiff’s case, it cannot…