 | Law - 1843 - 532 pages
...party accused of a crime, that the jury should respond as to the facts, and the court as to the law. It is the duty of the court to instruct the jury as to the law ; and it is the duty of the jury to follow the law, as it is laid down by the court. This is the... | |
 | International law - 1845 - 532 pages
...party accused of a crime, that the jury should respond as to the facts, and the court as to the law. It is the duty of the court to instruct the jury as to the law ; and it is the duty of the jury to follow the law, as it is laid down by the court. This is the... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - Evidence (Law) - 1848 - 764 pages
...party accused of a crime, that the jury should respond as to the facts, and the court as to the law. It is the duty of the court to instruct the jury as to the law; and it is the duty of the jury to follow the law, as it is laid down by the court. This is the... | |
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 810 pages
...verdict give, according to law and the evidence, so help you God." In these cases under this statute, it is the duty of the court to instruct the jury as to their duties and the law of the case, and their oath requires the jury to faithfully and impartially... | |
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 796 pages
...convey them safely and without injury." Where a declaration contains several grounds of negligence, it is the duty of the court to instruct the jury as to those upon which, alone, recovery can be based, and to eliminate the others. The court should, as requested,... | |
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1853 - 732 pages
...on the top of the fish-dam is nearly two feet, the jury may find for the defendants." Held, that it is the duty of the Court to instruct the jury as to the law, and inform them as to the legal sequence resulting from given facts, but the Court is not bound... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1856 - 744 pages
...Perhaps this disposition of the case was a little hasty, not to say slovenly. We do not decide that it is the duty of the Court to instruct the Jury as to the law, in every case, even though Counsel differ as to what the law is, whether the Court is requested... | |
 | Daniel Edgar Sickles, Felix Gregory De Fontaine - Trials (Murder) - 1859 - 140 pages
...controlling in this District, from 5th Cranch, in which was emhodied the remark of Judge Story : " That it is the duty of the Court to instruct the jury as to the law, and the duty of the jury to follow the law thus laid down. The Distr'ci-Attorney had stated what... | |
 | Alfred Conkling - Court rules - 1864 - 950 pages
...party accused of a crime that the jury should respond as to the facts, and the court as to the law. It is the duty of the court to instruct the jury as to the law, and it is the duty of the jury to follow the law as laid down by the court. This is the right... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - Evidence (Law) - 1866 - 756 pages
...party accused of a crime, that the jury should respond as to the facts, and the court as to the law. It is the duty of the court to instruct the jury as to the law ; and it is the duty of the jury to follow the law, as it is laid down by the court. This is the... | |
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It is the duty of the court to instruct the jury as to the law; and it is the duty of the jury to follow the law, as it is laid down by the court. 
