State v. Smith

The state’s witnessés who claimed they were Larry Smith’s accomplices told the' jury .Smith had (with varying numbers of them); participated in seventeen diverse and separate criminal enterprisés óveY afwo-month period. The trouble is that the Grand Jury had indicted Smith for only six. of them. '

We reverse this case because we find the trial to.be so lacking in fundamental fairness as to; be'rinsalvageable. The accused and his eounsél were forced without notice or an opportunity to prepare to defend against accusations of eleven other separate crimes for which no specific time was fixed and…