Evidence Code - EVID

DIVISION 10. HEARSAY EVIDENCE [1200 - 1390]

CHAPTER 2. Exceptions to the Hearsay Rule [1220 - 1390]

ARTICLE 4. Spontaneous, Contemporaneous, and Dying Declarations [1240 - 1242]

1240.  

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.

(Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.)

1241.  

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.

(Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.)

1242.  

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.

(Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.)