 | John Andrew Graham - 1812 - 96 páginas
...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... | |
 | Joseph Story Pitman - 1844 - 142 páginas
...performed its duty; go ye, gentlemen, and do yours. Mr. Turner requested the Court to charge the Jury that they are the judges of the law as well as of the fact in capital cases. Court. We can charge the Jury only as we have charged them ; they are to... | |
 | Joseph Story Pitman - 1844 - 142 páginas
...performed its duty; go ye, gentlemen, and do yours. Mr. Turner requested the Court to charge the Jury that they are the judges of the law as well as of the fact in capital cases. Court. We can charge the Jury only as we have charged them ; they are to... | |
 | New York (State). Commissioners on Practice and Pleadings - 1848 - 904 páginas
...of the court and of the jury. Nothing is more common, than for juries in criminal cases to be told that they are the judges of the law as well as of the fact; and as a matter of authority merely, the weight of the highest judicial names in this country... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1849 - 680 páginas
...him 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 páginas
...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... | |
 | 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 - 1891 - 798 páginas
...undoubtedly right, as a matter of law, in this direction; but it is claimed that the jury in criminal cases are the judges of the law as well as of the facts. This is true, in the sense that the jury might in this case, as well as in any criminal case, have... | |
 | John Henry Hopkins - 1857 - 458 páginas
...thing. "When the lawyer is aware that the court cannot sustain him, he never fails to tell the jury that they are the judges of the law as well as of the evidence ; and exerts all his art and eloquence to induce them to disregard the opinion of the... | |
 | Edmund Hatch Bennett, Franklin Fiske Heard - 1857 - 642 páginas
...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... | |
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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. 
