Wilcox v. Schroader's Administrator

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that .a “reference to ... the ability of the defendant to pay a fee was improper. The defendant was charged with murder, and not with being wealthy, and no reference should have been made to his station in life.”
• reversing because jurors were told they would be “traitors” and “in a class with Judas” if they returned a verdict of acquittal
• conviction reversed due to prosecutor’s argument to jury suggesting that defense counsel had no confidence in his case
• conviction reversed due to prosecutor's argument to jury suggesting that defense counsel had no confidence in his case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).