Bunn v. State

Although the State had introduced evidence that the appellant fled the day after the shooting, the trial court refused to allow defense witness Russell Edward Johnson to testify that he told the appellant that Randy Morgan and others had made threats on the appellant’s life. This testimony was offered in explanation of the appellant’s flight. I dissent from the holding of the majority that Johnson’s testimony constituted inadmissible hearsay.

“If it is material to prove that a person at a specified time had been put on notice about a matter, or entertained a specified belief, acted in good or…