Tomlin v. State
Tomlin v. State
Opinion
As to the appellant's argument that the hospital records contained inadmissible hearsay, this argument is waived for purposes of appeal. The record indicates that the defense counsel objected to the hospital records on the grounds that they "contained hearsay," without specifying the part of the reports which were allegedly inadmissible. Dr. Byron, the State's expert who had examined the victim and made the part of the hospital reports containing the victim's allegations, had previously testified that the reports also contained laboratory data and some documentation from the caseworker who had been assigned to the victim. In Pickett v. State, supra, at 334, this court held that:
" 'When a party objects to a document as a unit that contains admissible as well as inadmissible matter, the trial court is justified in overruling the objection.' Smith v. State,
354 So.2d 1167 ,1172 (Ala.Cr.App. 1977), cert. denied,354 So.2d 1172 (Ala. 1978). A defendant cannot complain on appeal of the admission of a written statement over his general objection where some parts of the document were admissible. It is not for the trial court to separate the admissible from the inadmissible. Shorter v. State,63 Ala. 129 (1879); Johnson v. State,32 Ala. App. 101 ,104 ,22 So.2d 102 , reversed on other grounds,246 Ala. 630 ,22 So.2d 105 (1945). The objection should separate the good from the bad, Brown v. State,40 Ala. App. 226 ,112 So.2d 500 , cert. stricken,269 Ala. 180 ,112 So.2d 504 (1959); Haney v. State,20 Ala. App. 236 ,101 So. 533 , cert. denied, Ex parte Haney,211 Ala. 614 ,101 So. 537 (1924); Patterson v. State,8 Ala. App. 420 ,62 So. 1023 (1913)."
Therefore, because the appellant did not specify those portions of the report that were objectionable, this matter is waived on appeal.
The trial court properly overruled the appellant's objection to the demonstration.
"In any criminal proceeding in juvenile cases wherein the defendant is alleged to have had unlawful sexual contact or penetration with or on a child, the court shall permit the use of anatomically correct dolls or mannequins to assist an alleged victim or witness who is under the age of 10 in testifying on direct and cross-examination at trial, or in a videotaped deposition as provided in this article."
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Moreover, a motion to exclude evidence does not preserve the issue of error and admissibility of evidence when no timely objection was made when the evidence was admitted. SeeWaddle v. State,
AFFIRMED.
All Judges concur.
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