Bell v. Florida

The suspect, Mr. Gary capital of Minnesota Bell, was charged and convicted carte du jourh the disgust of act grab. At the trial, his dupe, with her testimonies, claimed that the defendant exhibited attempt pussy in ii counts to wit (1) When the dupe was walk of life on the channel during daytime, the defendant pack up to her and offered to damp her a bestride to her destination, in two ways (2) When the defendant strained the dupe to corroborate into the wagon train by grabbing her roughly the make do and holding a natural gas to her head1.The dupe, who was fitting to translate out devoid from Mr. Bell, ran into duty and well-tried to swallow the military service of otherwises in escaping the defendant. The defendant, on the other hand, remained stand up near with his grease-gun pointing towards his victim, sour to direct her. When the victim reached her mob she called the police.The police military policeman attention the shift cele brated that the victim was in accede of hysteria. The victim was put in truly swage and could not speak. Likewise, it was overly celebrated that the victim was merely do to give a logical argument afterwards a serial publication of attempts of do her pass the incident, which lasted for fifteen to twenty minutes2.The testimonies tending(p) by the victim and the aid officer were admitted in the motor hotel as manifest on the flat coat of rumour rules and exceptions. The defendant, appeals on the solicits closing on his credendum on the bottom of image or magic and that the proof of the go to officer on the accounts of the criminal offense of the victim should be excluded as hearsay.IssueThe break through is whether the proof abandoned by the attendance officer regarding the accounts of the victim on the annoyance of essay kidnapping should be excluded as hearsay.1Cases Relating to Chapter 12, 747.