United States v. Clarence Samuel Beach

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the court “had an electric drop cord delivered to the jury” during deliberations, which defense counsel believed jurors used to test the operation of adding machines
• explaining, in direct appeal, that “the mere making of a more critical examination of an exhibit than was made during the trial is not objectionable”
• operation of adding machines prejudicial where credibility of defendant as to hearing the machines determinative
• \the law is well settled that a case must be decided upon evidence submitted in court during the trial and not upon private experiments of the jurors\
• “the law is well settled that a case must be decided upon evidence submitted in court during the trial and not upon private experiments of the jurors”
• jury experiments involving evidence not admitted at trial may require new trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).