Murphy v. State
Annotate this CaseDefendant was convicted of malice murder, felony murder, and cruelty to children arising out of the death of a 15-month-old. Defendant appealed the denial of his motion for a new trial alleging that the trial court committed plain error by making a number of improper statements during the course of the trial and by failing to sever his trial from that of his co-defendant. Because the trial court's favorable comments regarding one of the State's witnesses, a detective, could have been construed by the jury as bolstering that witnesses' testimony, the court reversed and remanded for a new trial
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