Rumfelt v. Trinity River Canal & Hydraulic Mining Co.

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• holding that the alleged erroneous exclusion of evidence was harmless because it was cumulative of other evidence admitted at trial
• holding that the evidence was sufficient to authorize the defendant’s conviction for felony murder, relying, in part, on evidence that the child victim had pattern injuries, and the patterns matched a baseball bat and a broken umbrella police recovered from the defendant’s home
• explaining any error in exclusion of hearsay testimony of defendant’s co-worker was harmless in trial for malice murder, first-degree cruelty to child, and aggravated battery, when it was cumulative of other admissible evidence

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