# Jones v. United States

> District of Columbia Court of Appeals · February 8, 1979 · 398 A.2d 11

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/4944527

## Case

- **Full name:** Larry E. JONES v. UNITED STATES
- **Court:** District of Columbia Court of Appeals
- **Decided:** February 8, 1979
- **Citations:** 398 A.2d 11; 1979 D.C. App. LEXIS 331
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Mack
- **Judges:** Gallagher, MacK, Yeagley
- **Cited by:** 3 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- finding state-of-mind testimony to be admissible where defendant claimed victim accidentally fell down stairs

## Opinion text

MACK, Associate Judge,
concurring:
I do not read this record as presenting a defense that would have permitted the admission of this evidence as bearing upon the state of mind exception to the hearsay rule. See United States v. Brown, 160 U.S.App.D.C. 190, 212 , 490 F.2d 758, 780 (1973) (as amended Jan. 10, 1974). Nevertheless I concur in affirmance. See Kotteakos v. United States, 328 U.S. 750, 764-65 , 66 S.Ct. 1239 , 90 L.Ed. 1557 (1946). Cf. Campbell v. United States, D.C.App., 391 A.2d 283 (1978) (prejudicial error).

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