Grant v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
HEARING on an appeal by tbe defendant in a prosecution for murder, from a judgment of conviction of murder in the first degree by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.
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HEARING on an appeal by tbe defendant in a prosecution for murder, from a judgment of conviction of murder in the first degree by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: The appellant, Charles E. Grant, was tried under an indictment charging him with the premeditated murder of one Eva Barnes on December 16, 1905, convicted of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to death on April 21, 1906. The government offered evidence tending to show that the appellant and Eva Barnes were together at the house of Florence Anderson, in…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Shepard
1. The first assignment of error relates to the exception taken to the evidence of the declarations of the wounded woman as given by the witness Brown. We are of the opinion that there was no error in admitting the declarations as part of the res gestee. They were made immediately after the receipt of the fatal wound and while the blood was flowing therefrom. The time at and the circumstances under which they were made reasonably indicate that they were spontaneous, and exclude the idea of deliberation or design. Many authorities sustaining their admissibility are reviewed in the following…
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- United States v. James Glenn, A/K/A James M. GreenCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1973
- Crawford v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1952
- United States v. EdmondsDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 1946
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