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- Title: State v. Sidney William Jones
- Author : Supreme Court of Minnesota
- Release Date : January 25, 1963
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 56 KB
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The appeal is from a judgment of the district court whereby defendant was convicted of the crime of rape. 1. In urging the jury to find defendant guilty the county attorney argued: ""If the State falls down, if we don't prosecute that type of a crime, then we might just as well let everybody out of the institutions and put all the people who are not in there in the institutions because society is not safe with a man like that. It could be my daughter, it could be your daughter, it could be anybody's daughter, it could be my wife, it could be somebody else's wife."" The theme was repeated again in these words: "" he next girl he sees might be my daughter, my wife or somebody else's daughter or wife."" The jurors were told that if they let him go he would be able to say, ""Well I beat the rap on this one here. The county attorney didn't do anything about it. The jury turned me loose so I can do it again."" (Italics supplied.) Exception was taken by the attorney for the defendant who moved for a mistrial. The motion was denied, but the court admonished the jury as follows: