McKee v. People

Where a trial involves liberty or life, and the evidence of the offense charged is wholly circumstantial, it is necessary, I conceive, that the rules of procedure which have been established, as the result of long experience, to prevent a miscarriage of justice, should be carefully observed. Because there were, in this case, serious infractions of those rules, which I should appear to approve by concurring in the majority opinion, I am impelled to dissent and to state the grounds therefor. Much more than the question of the guilt of the plaintiff in error is involved in this case.

Objection…