Grady v. Collins Transportation Co. Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• prosecution allowed to comment on defendant’s failure to call spouse where spouse “is in the control of the [defendant] and available”
• an inference against a party based on the absence of a possible witness is permissible when the witness is in the control of the party and available
• “[T]he trial judge may allow the inference to be drawn if the evidence shows the probable availability to the party of the absent witnesses, the circumstances emphatically call for their presence if his testimony is to be believed, and no explanation has been offered of their absence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).