Supreme Court of Alabama November 15, 1890 (Fonville v. State)

COLEMAN, J.

Acts and declarations, to be admitted as res gestee, must not only be substantially contemporaneous with the main fact under consideration, but must be so closely connected with it as to illustrate its character.—Ala. Gr. So. R. R. Co. v. Hawks, 72 Ala. 117; Martin v. Phinizy, 56 Ala. 339; Gassenheimer v. State, 52 Ala. 318.