Elliot v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• conversations between two people about an impending drug transaction were admissible against defendant to show purchasers’ intent and purpose in going to seller’s house
• where the accused claims the victim’s death was an accident and not murder, “the state of mind of the victim is relevant to prove the state of mind of the accused and the nature of their relationship”
• where the accused claims the victim's death was an accident and not murder, \the state of mind of the victim is relevant to prove the state of mind of the accused and the nature of their relationship\
• discussing the state-of-mind exception to the hearsay rule

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).