McDermott v. Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad

How courts have described this case

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• stating that defendant’s admission to witnesses was direct evidence
• direct evidence includes “the testimony of a person who claims to have personal knowledge of facts about the crime charged” (quotation omitted)
• issue not preserved where defendant withdrew request for relief from counsel’s ineffectiveness depriving court of the opportunity to rule
• defining direct and circumstantial evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).