Court Opinion

ID: 9571475
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 20:32:04.602456+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:30:27.961874
License: Public Domain

MR. JUSTICE DAY
specially concurring.
While concurring in the opinion of the majority, I wish specially to point out that I consider additional prejudicial error to have been committed by the court because of comments made as quoted in the majority opinion. Although sustaining the objection to the proposed demonstration, the court, nevertheless, in the presence of the jury characterized the contemplated demonstration as requiring the defendant to “testify against himself.” Thus, the jury was told, in effect, that the demonstration would be incriminating. The fact that the demonstration never took place did not eliminate the prejudicial error and its effect on the jury.
MR. JUSTICE LEE and MR. JUSTICE ERICKSON authorize me to say that they join in this specially concurring opinion.