Legal Opinion · Dissent

Calhoun v. Superior Court

California Supreme Court

Decided December 30, 1955No. L. A. 23779Published

1DissentCarter, J.

I dissent.

Because of the misleading statements and inferences contained in the majority opinion, I find it necessary to restate the facts here involved and to demonstrate that the majority has in every instance gone out of its way to “draw” not only the inferences most compatible with guilt but has manufactured inferences which it uses as a foundation for layer after layer of more manufactured inferences until the entire shaky structure collapses of its own weight. The unfortunate result of the collapse is that a man, innocent of the crime with which he was charged, must stand to answer in a…

2Cases cited73 opinions

  1. Pinkerton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
  2. Caminetti v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1917
  3. United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1940
  4. Krulewitch v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
  5. United States v. RabinowichSupreme Court of the United States · 1915

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