Vannier v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• in murder prosecution, exclusion of evidence that might have tended to show that decedent committed suicide rather than was murdered was not harmless error
• error for trial court to exclude letters written by the victim when defendant's theory of defense was that victim had committed suicide
• in murder prosecution, exclusion of evidence that might have tended to show that decedent committed suicide rather than was murdered was not harmless error
• in murder prosecution, exclusion of evidence that decedent might have committed suicide was reversible error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).