People v. Allen

The conduct of the prosecuting attorney was contumacious and a studied method of getting before the jury, to the intended prejudice of defendant, evidence inadmissible by previous and proper ruling of the court. Such misconduct by the prosecutor falls squarely within the holdings which commanded reversals in People v. Cords, 232 Mich. 620, and People v.Cowles, 246 Mich. 429. The viciousness of the prosecutor went beyond the evil appearing in the Cords Case, for here he got the excluded evidence before the jury while in that case the error was in offers of proof.

In the Cords Case this court…