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Smith v. State

Citations

  • 6 Ark. App. 228
  • 640 S.W.2d 805
  • 1982 Ark. App. LEXIS 878

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  • holding that a videotape should have been admitted into evidence instead of a transcription because the tape was “the original evidence” of the witness’s statement.
  • videotape admissible as “original evidence” so as “to permit the jurors to determine firsthand from the videotape the demeanor of [a conspirator] and allow the jury to test his credibility while making the confession.”

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Judges: Also, Cloninger, Corbin, Cracraft, Glaze, Mayfield, Point

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