Hagez v. State

How courts have described this case

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• calling a witness in order to ask leading questions while knowing she will invoke, albeit improperly, the spousal testimonial privilege constituted reversible error
• “Ordinarily, premeditation is not established by direct evidence. Rather, it is usually inferred from the facts and surrounding circumstances.”
• State’s unrelenting questioning of witness in presence of jury prejudiced defendant even though witness asserted invalid claim of spousal immunity
• “[t]he true test is whether the evidence, circumstantial or otherwise, and the inferences that can reasonably be drawn from the evidence, would be sufficient to convince a rational trier of fact, beyond a reasonable doubt, of the guilt of the accused.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).