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Admissibility Of Evidence Obtained By Wire Tapping, Robert L. Howard
Admissibility Of Evidence Obtained By Wire Tapping, Robert L. Howard
University of Missouri Bulletin Law Series
The United States Supreme Court was recently called upon to consider a novel aspect of the problem of search and seizure and the admissibility of illegally obtained evidence. Several persons had been convicted of a conspiracy to violate the National Prohibition Act. The information which led to the discovery of the conspiracy and its nature and extent was largely obtained by intercepting messages on the telephones of the conspirators by four federal prohibition officers. The primary question considered by the Supreme Court was whether the use of such evidence of private telephone conversations between the defendants and others, intercepted by …
Some Problems In Hearsay And Relevancy In Missouri, E. W. Hinton
Some Problems In Hearsay And Relevancy In Missouri, E. W. Hinton
University of Missouri Bulletin Law Series
There is no rule better known than that hearsay evidence is generally not admissible. It is equally true, though not so widely known, that there are a large number of specific exceptions to this general rule of exclusion. Hearsay, has been so long under the ban that the profession not uncommonly thinks of it as not being evidence at all, rather than as a kind of evidence generally excluded for reasons of policy connected with the jury trial. This notion is responsible for a good deal of confusion in dealing with the exceptions under which hearsay is received. Instead of …