State ex rel. Hughes v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, for purposes of harmfulness analysis, trial court’s improper failure to provide jury with special credibility instruc- tion for witness who was jailhouse informant was not constitutional in nature
• reversing judgment where trial court declined to instruct jury regarding credibility of jailhouse informant who had been promised benefit in exchange for his tes- timony
• describing additional jury cautions necessary when accomplice or complaining witness testifies
• defendant was entitled to instruction “substantially in accord with the one that he had sought”
• trial court is required to give special credibility instruction for jail-house informant who has been promised benefit in exchange for testimony
• trial court is required to give special credibility instruction for jailhouse informant who has been promised benefit in exchange for testimony

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