Appellate Court of Illinois· 9/10/1980

People v. Cherry

Citations

411 N.E.2d 61
88 Ill. App. 3d 1048
15 A.L.R. 4th 1032
44 Ill. Dec. 155
1980 Ill. App. LEXIS 3690

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statement qualifying as spontaneous declaration “is reliable and admissi ble regardless of the competency of the declarant, since the reliability of the statement comes from the circumstances under which the statement was made”
no error for trial court to refuse instruction that child “was declared by this Court not to be a competent witness to testify at trial” because reliability of spontaneous declaration comes from circumstances under which it was uttered and not the competency of the declarant
no error for trial court to refuse instruction that child \was declared by this Court not to be a competent witness to testify at trial\ because reliability of spontaneous declaration comes from circumstances under which it was uttered and not the competency of the declarant

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