Glisson v. State

In the trial of one charged with a criminal offense, the allowance in evidence of hearsay testimony over timely objection, upon a point material to the State’s case, is prima facie harmful. It has been held that “Though evidence when first admitted be objectionable as hearsay, not coming strictly within the res gestae, if the direct facts be afterwards proved by another witness whose knowledge of them is personal and immediate, and as whose sayings they were detailed by the former witness, the irregularity is not such as to require a new trial.” Lovett v. State, 60 Ga. 257 (4); Usher v.…