stating that Rule 803(9) “provides an alternative avenue of admissibility for death certificates, in addition to section 191.052 of the Texas Health and Safety Code”
How later courts described this case
- stating that Rule 803(9) “provides an alternative avenue of admissibility for death certificates, in addition to section 191.052 of the Texas Health and Safety Code”
- discussing differing treatment of findings of accident or suicide as facts or opinions and listing cases
- "An autopsy report is admissible under the public-records hearsay exception of the Texas Rules of Evidence."
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
Justice PRICE,
dissenting.
En banc consideration was requested.
A majority of the Court did not vote in favor of en banc consideration of this case.
Justice Jennings, joined by Justice Hedges, dissenting from the denial of en banc consideration.