statements to roommates upon arrival home were first opportunity to complain to anyone other than defendant and were thus admissible under first complaint exception
How later courts described this case
- statements to roommates upon arrival home were first opportunity to complain to anyone other than defendant and were thus admissible under first complaint exception
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
The rationale of the courts judgment is that this cause is reversed, because of the introduction of the evidence given by the Mother of the alleged victim with reference to details of the outcry made after the crime was alleged to have been committed, and is remanded for a new trial.
THOMAS, C. J., TERRELL, BUFORD, CHAPMAN and ADAMS, JJ., concur. *Page 600