Land v. People

I respectfully dissent by reason of my belief that pro-judicial error was committed when the court allowed the written, impeaching statement of the defendant’s wife to be admitted into evidence without any advice to the jury as to the limited purpose for its admission. The defendant’s wife was a witness for the People. While on the stand, she denied that she had seen her husband and daughter in bed together. The prosecuting attorney then claimed surprise and over objection was permitted to introduce the wife’s written statement that she had found the two in bed together on several occasions.

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