finding it reversible er ror to admit autopsy photographs showing hands and instruments of surgeon inside chest of victim
How later courts described this case
- finding it reversible er ror to admit autopsy photographs showing hands and instruments of surgeon inside chest of victim
- finding it reversible er *842 ror to admit autopsy photographs showing hands and instruments of surgeon inside chest of victim
- deeming photographs so “gruesome and shocking” as to be inadmissible
- reversible error to admit autopsy photographs showing hands and instruments of surgeon inside chest of victim
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
Concurring Opinion
Landis, J.
I concur in reversal of judgment for the reason that the admission of photographs which were exhibits 13 and 14 (showing the hands and instruments of the surgeon inside decedent’s chest, and additional incisions and stitches by the doctor performing the autopsy) contained foreign and irrelevant matter of a gruesome and inflammatory nature not properly *119 admissible in this case, and was therefore reversible error.