128 So. 2d 765 - Burton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
states following
September 1978
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Scott Paper Co. v. McAllister Lighterage Line, Inc. · People v. Chessman · United States v. Di Canio · Herring v. Kennedy-Herring Hardware Co. · Gibbs v. Crittenden
Most-quoted passages
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“The Rules on Appeal are intended to simplify and facilitate appellate procedure, not to provide for new trials on grounds which did not theretofore exist and which are not necessary to the fair administration of justice. On this appeal, as in every appeal, it is to be presumed that defendant had been accorded a fair trial and that the judgment of conviction is valid. We perceive no legal impropriety and no unfairness in placing on an appellant in the situation of Chessman the burden of showing either prejudicial error in the record or that the record is so inadequate that he is unable to show such error. Inconsequential inaccuracies or omissions in a record cannot prejudice a party; if in truth there does exist some consequential inaccuracy or omission, the appellant must show what it is and why it is consequential.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Butler v. State
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