 | 1907 - 1152 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... | |
 | 1900 - 1134 sider
...prosecution is brought Is a constitutional and valid one; but, under the limitations already stated, you are the Judges of the law as well as of the facts, and It Is for you to say on all the evidence, and under the law as you find it to be, and as you conscientiously... | |
 | 1911 - 1320 sider
...acquit both, or convict one and acquit the other, Just as the proof may warrant under the law. "You are the Judges of the law as well as of the facts of the case under the Instructions of the court; the court being a witness to1 you of the law. "The... | |
 | 1892 - 1312 sider
...the affidavit of defendant, is not ground for new trial. 6. A charge of the court telling the jury that they are the Judges of the law as well as of the evidence, and that they have the legal right to disregard the instructions of the court, is erroneous,... | |
 | Frederick Sackett, Martin L. Newell - 1888 - 836 sider
...In the case of Schnier vs. The People, the court qualified the general instruction that " the jury are the judges of the law as well as of the facts," as follows: " If the jury can say n|xm their oaths that they know the law better than the court does,... | |
 | Stewart Rapalje - 1889 - 760 sider
...from the evidence given, the wliole of it beiug considered together.6 While as we have seen the jury are the judges of the law as well as of the facts, and have the power to disregard the instructions of the court as to the 1 iw of the case s still they... | |
 | 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 - 1892 - 690 sider
...Law. — Instruction. — In a prosecution for larceny of a horse, an instruction that "You • » • are the judges of the law as well as of the facts. You can take the law as given and explained to you by the court, but, if you see fit, you have the... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1893 - 1052 sider
...as set forth and charged in the bill of indictment. "I instruct you, however, as requested, that you are the judges of the law as well as of the facts, under the advice and direction of the court. Yon are to look to the court for the best evidence of... | |
 | North Carolina, Thomas Jefferson Jerome - 1899 - 644 sider
...Oxendine, 107 — 783. JURY NOT THE JUDGKS OF THE LAW. — It is not error to refuse to tell the jury that they are the judges of the law as well as of the facts. Peace, 46 (1 Jones), 251. GOOD CHARACTER IN PLAIN CASK. — It is error to charge the jury that "in... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - 1886 - 1038 sider
...decided in 1856, this Court said: "In determining the guilt or innocence of the party indicted, the jury are the judges of the law as well as of the facts; but not in exactly the same sense. Under our statute they are exclusive judges of the facts; they are,... | |
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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. 
