McElmurry v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding State may introduce pretrial statement showing that defendant lied about his involvement in the crime
• finding prosecutor may introduce defendant’s contradictory pre-trial statements against him to establish he is untrustworthy in his other statements
• the term “society” refers to society as a whole
• the term \society\ refers to society as a whole
• “The prohibited ‘societal alarm’ argument is one that mentions crimes committed by other persons and not attributable to the defendant on trial. . . . [I]t implies that the jury should ‘make an example’ out of the defendant on trial to deter other potential criminals.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).