Williams v. State

Deen, Presiding Judge.

Buford E. Williams, Jr., was convicted of two counts each of kidnapping, rape and sodomy of two young girls in Jefferson County. On appeal he asserts two errors.

1. Williams first contends that the trial court erred in admitting narrative hearsay testimony which is claimed to have been made by the two thirteen-year-old victims over an eight-hour period of time in the presence of a nurse. The trial court held that the testimony was admissible as part of the res gestae.

“What is res gestae of a given transaction must depend upon its own peculiarities of character and…