Article 4 - Spontaneous, Contemporaneous, and Dying Declarations

Sections (3)

§ 1240

Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.

Evidence of a statement is not made inadmissible by the hearsay rule if the statement:

(a)Purports to narrate, describe, or explain an act, condition, or event perceived by the declarant; and

(b)Was made spontaneously while the declarant was under the stress of excitement caused by such perception.

§ 1241

Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.

Evidence of a statement is not made inadmissible by the hearsay rule if the statement:

(a)Is offered to explain, qualify, or make understandable conduct of the declarant; and

(b)Was made while the declarant was engaged in such conduct.

§ 1242

Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.

Evidence of a statement made by a dying person respecting the cause and circumstances of his death is not made inadmissible by the hearsay rule if the statement was made upon his personal knowledge and under a sense of immediately impending death.