State of West Virginia v. Oscar Chapman

How courts have described this case

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• “A statement is not hearsay if it is used only to show the effect on the listener, without regard to the truth of the statement.”
• in prosecution for possession of controlled substance with intent to deliver, detective's testimony that informant said defendant was dealing cocaine was improperly admitted to show impetus for investigation
• noting previous hung jury in considering whether untainted evidence overwhelming

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).