Laycock v. People
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to Denver District Court, Hon. Julian H. Moore, Judge.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court:
Q. Mr. Laycock, what is your explanation of why you happen to be here now as a defendant in this case?
A. Why, I believe it is due to excitement, or something like that, or a mistake.
Q. • Do you mean to tell these jurors your wife and your stepdaughter are trying to frame up a case on you?
These questions might be unobjectionable, or not reversible error, had they come from the District Attorney, but, coming from the court, they were prejudicial. They tended to induce in the minds of the jury a belief that, in the court’s opinion, defendant was guilty. With the witnesses so closely…
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