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Title: Garza V. State
Author : Texas Court of Appeals
Release Date : January 02, 1999
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 50 KB

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After Meliton Garza, Jr. arranged for the delivery of over two hundred pounds of marijuana to a police informant, he was arrested, charged with unlawful delivery, and convicted by a jury. At his trial, the State proved its case, at least in part, with out-of-court statements made by his brother, which were admitted into evidence under the co-conspirator's exemption to the hearsay rule. The brother's out-of-court statements were admitted only after the trial court took judicial notice of facts from the brother's separate trial. Appellant contests the trial court's taking judicial notice, which the trial court did as the preliminary determination for the admissibility of the out-of-court statements. We conclude the trial court erred in doing so, but the error was harmless. Appellant also challenges the admission of a written transcript that reflected the translation of a telephone conversation from Spanish into English. We conclude appellant has not shown reversible error with respect to the admission of the transcript. Accordingly, we affirm appellant's conviction.