Leonard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
states following
December 1992
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Clingham v. State · Markham v. State · Lewis v. State · Lillard v. State · Hopson v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“We cannot say that appellant’s offered instruction constituted an objection to the omission he now complains of, because both the instruction given and the one offered were quite lengthy and covered the law governing numerous points. Such an offer does not adequately direct the court’s attention to the fault in the comprehensive instruction of which complaint is now made. In such cases, we have said that if the court’s mind had been directed to the specific fault, the language would have been changed to meet the objection. We can say the same here. If appellant believed that the instruction was subject to misconstruction on the question of the burden of proof, it was incumbent upon him to call particular attention to this possibility, and his request for an instruction did not have that effect. [Citations omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Edwards v. State
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