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Mattox Vs. United States

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Feb 04, 1895

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  1. Mattox v. United
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  2. States - 156 U.S. 237 (1895) U.S. Supreme Court Mattox v. United
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  3. States, 156 U.S. 237 (1895) Mattox v. United
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  4. Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Kansas Syllabus Caha V. United
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  5. cognizable in the Judicial District of Kansas. Indeed, this point is disposed of by the decision of this Court in Caha v. United
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  6. King v. Jolliffe
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  7. King v. Radbourne
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  8. Rex v. Smith
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  9. country, we know of none of the States in which such testimony is now held to be inadmissible. In the cases of Finn v. Commonwealth
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  10. Rand. (Va.) 701, Mendum v. Commonwealth
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  11. Rand. (Va.) 704, and Brogy v. Commonwealth
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  12. argument of the Court indicated that the result would have been the same if they had been dead. In the case of State v. Atkins
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  13. since deceased was rejected by the Supreme Court of Tennessee, but this case was subsequently overruled in Kendrick v. State
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  14. testimony of a deceased witness, taken before a committing magistrate, was held to be admissible. See also Johnston v. State
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  15. Bostick v. State
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  16. Humphrey 344. The rule in California was formerly against the admission of such testimony, People v. Chung
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  17. People v. Qurise
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  18. special provision of the Code applicable to absent and deceased witnesses, which is held to be constitutional. People v. Oiler
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  19. California 101. In the case of State v. Campbell
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  20. was carefully considered in its constitutional aspect by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in Commonwealth v. Richards
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  21. The subject was also treated at great length by Judge Drummond in United States v. Macomb
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  22. Summons v. State
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  23. Brown v. Commonwealth
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  24. State v. McO'Blenis
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  25. State v. Baker
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  26. State v. Houser
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  27. State v. Able
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  28. Owens v. State
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  29. Barnett v. People
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  30. United States v. White
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  31. Robinson v. State
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  32. State v. Wilson
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  33. State v. Johnson
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  34. Roberts v. State
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  35. State v. Cook
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  36. Dunlap v. State
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  37. O'Brian v. Commonwealth
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  38. State v. Hooker
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  39. Crary v. Sprague
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  40. United States v. Wood
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  41. State v. Valentine
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  42. Iredell 225. While the precise question has never arisen in this Court, we held in Reynolds v. United
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  43. witness whose testimony is about to be introduced. This method of impeachment was approved by this Court in Conrad v. Griffey
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  44. Railway v. Artery
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  45. to impeach the witness. The authorities, however, do not recognize this distinction. It is true that, in Wright v. Littler
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  46. approved by the Queen's Bench, Lord Mansfield delivering the opinion, and that similar evidence was admitted in Aveson v. Kinnaird
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  47. Page 156 U. S. 247 East, 188, 196, but the authority of these cases was seriously shaken by Stobart v. Dryden
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  48. The case of Ayers v. Watson
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  49. that the witness himself is dead, does not dispense with the necessity of laying the proper foundation. Thus in Stacey v. Graham
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  50. The question was Page 156 U. S. 249 further elaborately considered in Runyan v. Price
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