| Pennsylvania. Courts, John Wayne Ashmead - 1871 - 572 стор.
...accused could not be convicted of murder in the first degree. He again instructed the jury, that they were the judges of the law as well as of the facts ; and admonished them to be careful and not to suffer any prejudice to exist against the prisoner,... | |
| Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1881 - 700 стор.
...court gave to the jury an elaborate series of instructions in writing. After telling the jury that they were the judges of the law as well as of the facts of the case, as also of the credibility of the witnesses^ the weight of the evidence, and of the inferences... | |
| Isaac Grant Thompson - 1881 - 896 стор.
...court gave to the jury an elaborate series of inrtructions in writing. After telling the jury that they were the judges of the law as well as of the facts of the case, as also of the credibility of the witnesses, the weight of the evidence, and of the inferences... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1883 - 1288 стор.
...nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes. " And the defendants' counsel contended that the jury were the judges of the law as well as the fact in the case; that it was their duty to judge of the constitutionality of the Act of July 4,... | |
| 1895 - 1088 стор.
...offence, and the question was directly presented whether in criminal cases, especially In capital cases, the Jury were the Judges of the law as well as of the facts. He said: "My opinion Is that the jury are no more judges of the law in a capital or other criminal... | |
| 1883 - 876 стор.
...and jury was not very clearly defined, — it being contended by some of the best lawyers in England that the jury were the judges of the law as well as the facts, — doubtless had an influence in forming the practice; but it is most pernicious, and a... | |
| 1907 - 1152 стор.
...defendant, under the statute making the jury the judges of the law, requested an instruction to the effect that the jury were the judges of the law as well as the facts, and that they were not bound by the law as declared by the court ; that the jury ought to... | |
| 1908 - 1160 стор.
...do. 6. SAME— CUBING ERROR. Such error was not cured by a statement of the court that it was true that the jury were the judges of the law as well as of the facts ; that the court had decided in passing on the admissibility oí testimony that in its opinion an attorney... | |
| 1897 - 1148 стор.
...was brought was a constitutional and valid law; but that, under the limitations already stated, they were the judges of the law, as well as of the facts; and it was for them to say, on all the evidence, and under the law as they should find it to be, and... | |
| Isaac E. Adams - 1886 - 840 стор.
...of the defendant's constitutional rights. He also asked that the Court instruct the jury that they were the judges of the law as well as of the facts. On both points the Court ruled against him, and but for the acquittal of the defendant the Supreme... | |
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