Davis v. State

More constitutional guarantees go, here. With the affirmance of this case goes the constitutional guarantee, both state and federal, which preserves to one upon trial in a criminal case the right to be confronted by the witnesses against him (Art. 1, Sec. 19, Const, of Texas, and the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Federal Constitution).

When such guarantee is destroyed, hearsay evidence is raised to the status of legitimate testimony by and through *527which men may be tried and condemned and deprived of their life and liberty.

In this case this appellant has been assessed imprisonment for…