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74 Kan. 898

State v. Connor

Supreme Court of Kansas

Decided November 10, 1906

Supreme Court of Kansas · decided 1906-11-10

<p>Appeal from Rush district court; Charles E. Lob-dell, judge.</p>

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

““On an appeal, the court must give judgment without regard to technical errors or defects, or to exceptions which do not affect the substantial rights of the parties.” (Crim. Code, § 293.)”

quoted by 1 later decision, including State v. Hammon

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Affirmed · Decided 1906-11-10

How this case has been cited

Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 1995

7 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

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Per Curiam:

¶1Appellant was convicted of the larceny of wheat, and appeals. The order of proof was a matter of discretion with the court, which was not abused in this case. The conclusions of witness Werhahn, identifying the wheat, were not objected to at the time. Facts, too, were stated which formed a chain of circumstances rendering the proof of value following competent. Identification of appellant by one witness was sufficient to carry the case to the jury. It was not improper for witness Clare to give his version of his talk with the county attorney, and the form in which it was given was not materially prejudicial.

¶2The difference between the weight of evidence read to the jury by the stenographer and evidence which in the presence of the jury he read to himself and then stated to the jury is not sufficient to work a reversal of the case.

¶3The word “should,” as used in the instructions to the jury, conveyed the sense of duty and obligation and could not have been misunderstood. The evidence in the case is sufficient to uphold the verdict.

¶4Section 293 of the code of criminal procedure reads:

¶5“On an appeal the court must give judgment without regard to technical errors or defects, or to exceptions which do not affect the substantial rights of the parties.”

¶6The judgment of the district court is affirmed.

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