Price v. Mullen

In his summation counsel for the plaintiff-respondent applied to one of defendant’s witnesses degrading appellations which it will serve no purpose to repeat here but which clearly were employed to arouse prejudice and passion rather than to promote calm judgment by the jury. Likewise in discussing the testimony of another opposing witness the same counsel stated: “ I am giving my personal opinion of (—■—). He is a crook.” The members of the jury had no concern with counsel’s personal opinion of this witness or any other. Their conclusion as to the veracity of a witness or the quality of his…