State v. Steele

MARTIN, Judge.

Defendant, defendant’s attorney, and the assistant district attorney entered into a written stipulation which provided that the results of a polygraph test would be admissible in evidence. Despite the stipulation, defendant assigns error to the admission of the test results.

In 1923, the first appellate court to consider the admissibility of polygraph evidence set out the standard for acceptance which has been followed ever since. Appellant in Frye v. United States, 293 F. 1013 (D.C. Cir. 1923) had been convicted of murder and appealed the trial court’s refusal to admit the…