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

Law Codes -> Evidence Code -> Article 1240 to 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.

• 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.

• 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.