Heddleson v. State

How courts have described this case

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• trial judge's comments which led the jury to believe that it had to reach a verdict in the time allotted for the trial otherwise the defendant would not be retried and would escape prosecution was reversible error
• “when there is some evidence introduced to support an instruction on the theory of a defense, it is error for the trial court to fail to give the requested jury instruction.”
• kidnapping is a specific intent crime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).