 They are in every instance the sole judges of the facts, and, when called as grand jurors, they are the judges of the law as well as of the facts.  Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan - Side 103av Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1891Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | John Andrew Graham - 1812 - 96 sider
...upon the country for trial. You gentlemen, are that country. Here I most remark that in this case you are the judges of the law as well as of the facts. And I thank God that you and I were born reasonable beings, and not brutes ; Christians, and not barbarians... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1849 - 680 sider
...and his adversary. Even now, we submit to a jury in this State, in a criminal prosecution, where they are the judges of the law as well as of the facts, to find, in the same bill of indictment, whether the defendant be guilty of murder or manslaughter;... | |
 | Archibald Prentice - 1802 - 454 sider
...never induce me to supplicate for your verdict ; but let me again remind you, that you, and you alone, are the judges of the law as well as of the facts ; and let me entreat, that with the full view of all the facts before you, you will upon this occasion... | |
 | Massachusetts constitutional convention, 1853 - 1853 - 814 sider
...to the first point, every lawyer in the Convention will tell you that in criminal issues juries are judges of the law as well as of the facts. This is one of the common-places of our science. But what do these words mean ? Here is the rub. One-half of... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention, Harvey Fowler - 1853 - 814 sider
...to the first point, every lawyer in the Convention will tell you that in criminal issues juries are judges of the law as well as of the facts. This is one of the common-places of our science. But what do these words mean ? Here is the rub. One-half of... | |
 | Connecticut. Supreme Court of Errors - 1894 - 712 sider
...which the whole case is submitted to the consideration of the jury, with the instruction that they are the judges of the law as well as of the facts. Indeed the whole charge is one of singular ability, and, with one exception now to be noticed, is characterized... | |
 | Edmund Hatch Bennett, Franklin Fiske Heard - 1857 - 642 sider
...said he, " it has becn said by courts of respectable authority, that the jurors in a criminal case are the judges of the law as well as of the facts ; but we think this opinion arises from not distinguishing betwecn the powers that a jury may assume... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - 1867 - 664 sider
...it was treated, and perhaps correctly, as presenting the question, whether jurors in criminal trials are the judges of the law as well as of the facts, and consequently whether it is proper for courts to give them peremptory instructions upon the legal... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1907 - 714 sider
...should be controlled by the instructions of the court as to the law. It first states that the jury are the judges of the law as well as of the facts in the case, and that they are not bound by the law as declared by the court, but have the right to... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1867 - 1310 sider
...uncontroverted, that was a question of law. The further objection taken, that in criminal cases the jury are the judges of the law as well as of the facts, has received the most full consideration of the court, in a case previously Williston r. Morse. argued.... | |
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