stating that an officer who witnessed a defendant giving a statement to another officer could testify to his opinion that the defendant gave the statement voluntarily because such testimony was a “mere shorthand rendering of the facts” demonstrating the defendant’s mental attitude or emotional state
How later courts described this case
- stating that an officer who witnessed a defendant giving a statement to another officer could testify to his opinion that the defendant gave the statement voluntarily because such testimony was a “mere shorthand rendering of the facts” demonstrating the defendant’s mental attitude or emotional state
- allowing a police officer to testify that a defendant gave his confession voluntarily because it Awas no more than a short rendition of the facts.@
- allowing a police officer to testify that a defendant gave his confession voluntarily because it “was no more than a short rendition of the facts.”
- defendant's jail record, including numerous transfers to different cell blocks, including segregated cells, and reasons for some transfers, such as fighting and violating jail rules, was admissible as business record
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The opinion
OVERSTREET, Judge,
dissenting to denial of appellant’s motion for leave to file motion for rehearing.
Because of the particular circumstances and facts of this case, (1) the age of the appellant and (2) the error of the court allowing the prosecutor to limit the jurors’ consideration of their beliefs on rehabilitation in answering Special Issue # 2, I would grant appellant’s motion for rehearing to reexamine the error complained of in point of error #3. The majority refuses, therefore, I dissent.