J. H. Sanders Publishing Co. v. Emerson

How courts have described this case

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• holding an unchallenged ruling, right or wrong, becomes the law of the case and will not be considered by the appellate court
• finding erroneous admission of a witness's remote manslaughter conviction harmless due to the unchallenged admission of another prior conviction for shooting/throwing a deadly missile
• stating “[t]he admission or exclusion of evidence is left to the sound discretion of the trial [court], whose decision will not be reversed on appeal absent an abuse of discretion”
• determining the error to be harmless after a review of the entire record and finding the admission of additional evidence against the defendant \could not reasonably have affected the jury's result in this case\
• finding the circuit court's ruling permitting admission of a defense witness's prior conviction was the law of the case when the defendant did not challenge the use of the conviction to impeach the witness's testimony
• \An appellate court generally will decline to set aside a conviction due to insubstantial errors not affecting the result.\

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