Hall v. State

I respectfully dissent.

Where a prosecutor deliberately pollutes the factfinding process by questions which he knows are improper, seeking to elicit evidence that he knows is inadmissible, an appellate court should carefully, if not meticulously, scrutinize the record to see that the harm thereby inflicted on the accused is not of reversible dimensions.

Specific objections were timely made by defense counsel in the case at bar, and the issue of prosecutorial misconduct is squarely before this court, as disclosed by the quotations from the trial in the majority opinion. Two instances that are…