United States v. Van Syoc

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he error was prejudicial because it deprived the defense of an instruction on their theory of the case.” Emphasis added.
• the defense of accident raised by the testimony of the accused’s wife and another who described the accused’s innocent explanation for the baby’s injuries
• duty to instruct arises when “some evidence” is presented raising the issue
• failure to instruct on defense theory of the case prejudicial error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).