GRAVES v. UNITED STATES

No. 838.

150 U.S. 118 (1893)

GRAVES v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 6, 1893.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. A.H. Garland for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Whitney for defendants in error.


MR. JUSTICE BROWN, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

The first assignment of error is to the action of the court in permitting "the district attorney in his closing argument to the jury, over the objections of the defendant, to comment upon the absence of the defendant's wife from the presence of the court, and to state, among other things to the jury, that the defendant's wife ought to have been sitting by the side of her husband during...

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