State v. Price

I

In proposition of law number two, appellant argues that the trial court erred in admitting hearsay testimony of one of Christa G.’s female friends as a spontaneous exclamation. Appellant contends that the hearsay testimony was improperly admitted because the declarant, Christa, in sworn testimony denied uttering the spontaneous exclamation. The testimony concerned events immediately following the alleged rape, and consisted of Christa’s statement to this friend that appellant had just raped her. Christa’s testimony, however, indicated only that she could not remember uttering the statement,…