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· 10/15/1883

Spencer v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.

Citations

  • 79 Mo. 500

How courts have described this case

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

  • affirming trial court’s ruling allowing the State to introduce previously excluded evidence of the defendant’s arrest to explain references in defense’s opening statement
  • addressing defendant’s due process argument as evidentiary argument only where defendant failed to specifically raise issue as constitutional matter to trial court
  • consolidating charges regarding assault in Durham against one woman and assault in Dover against another woman
  • once defendant opened the door, evidence of defendant’s subsequent burglary arrest admitted at sexual assault trial

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Judges: Ewing, Martin, Philips

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