199 So. 2d 261 - Moore v. Chambers’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. ““Mere rules of practice should never stand in the way of permitting the jury to hear all the witnesses, and in this case the record discloses that nothing save a rule of practice denied this substantial mle of justice to the defendants. The trial court has the power, and should always exercise it, to relax or suspend all court rules, to the end that litigants may be assured of a full and fair hearing of this side of the controversy. The record does not show any reason why the discovery of the actual tmth would have been imperiled by the defendant’s testimony, and, in the absence of such showing, we think the trial court erred in refusing to permit the witness to testify.” (Emphasis added.) 199 So.2d at 263 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bethune v. Turner