Interstate Life & Accident Insurance v. Whitlock

Felton, Chief Judge.

Special ground 5 of the amended motion .for new trial assigns as error the exclusion of the testimony, of Sgt. McKillop to the effect that he had carried the blood.of D. J. Whitlock to the State Crime Laboratory. The objection made to the testimony was that the witness did not know what kind of container was in the box or even if blood was in the box.

Even assuming that it was necessary for the witness to have had first-hand, personal knowledge of what kind of container was in the box he transported or that it was, in fact, blood in the container, the absence of this actual…