Hoskins v. Wingo

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• relying on “well settled” common-law “principles,” which are “determinative” of crime of conspiracy
• Superior Court in a criminal trial “has many powers not found in express language of statutes”
• “the judge also might have been reluctant to call the attention of the jurors to possible sources of adverse publicity”
• in absence of demonstrated prejudice, not reversible error to refuse to give requested instruction that jury not read newspapers or listen to radio or television accounts of the proceedings
• development of new matter should be governed by ordinary relevancy standards

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).