Hawley v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.

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• holding that a mistrial was not required in assault case where inadmissible testimony that the defendant previously fractured victim's nose could be viewed as an accident and thus was ambiguous as to criminal nature of conduct
• “Where the testimony is ambiguous, a defendant is not so substantially prejudiced that a mistrial is required.”
• “Prejudice is inherent in evidence of other, similar crimes committed by a defendant.”
• ambiguous testimony concerning prior criminal conduct not sufficiently prejudicial to require mistrial
• prejudice inherent in evidence of other similar crimes

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