Court Opinion

ID: 9810645
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 21:55:11.913893+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:40:07.887935
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Clark, J,
concurring. The Judge, having found ás a fact that the demonstrations, within and without the court room, were made “for the purpose of breaking the force of the counsel’s argument,” the magnitude and nature of those demonstrations were such as to require a new trial. The administration of justice must not only be fair and unbiased, but it must be above any just suspicion of any influence, save that credit which the jury shall give to the evidence before them. It is of vital importance to the public welfare that the decisions of Courts of justice shall command respect, but this will be impossible if there is ground to believe that extraneous influence of any kind whatever has been brought to bear.