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- Title: Walker v. People
- Author : Colorado Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 24, 1952
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 73 KB
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If we accept the record as it is before us, there is little therein to exonerate the defendant; however, the ultimate question is: Was this record fairly made? We cannot disregard the fact that an atrocious crime was committed; that the seat of the trial was in the same community of irate citizens; and that when the finger of suspicion was pointed in defendants direction, and when the charge was finally laid against him, all accounts thereof were fully embroidered by the press, which should be the maximum of information and the minimum of comment before trial in criminal cases. With this setting, it is easy for the gossamer thread of prejudice to be invisibly woven into the fabric of guilt through the means of an unfair and partial trial. In my opinion, several prejudicial errors occurred, the combination of which was sufficient to tip the finely balanced scale of justice. In a crime of the highest degree, such as this, no one can safely say that any error, however slight, is not prejudicial. In such an atmosphere, the following expression of Robert Ingersoll is fitting, "Prejudice is the spider of the mind, it is the womb of injustice."