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Atlantic Reporter - Page 243
1912
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The Federal Reporter: Cases Argued and Determined in the ..., Volumes 5-6

Law reports, digests, etc - 1881 - 1980 pages
...court, and your functions are simply to ascertain the facts. Of the facts you are the sole judges. You are the judges of the weight of the testimony, and the credibility of the witnesses, and it is for you, from all the testimony in the case, to determine the facts, and when you determine the...
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Debates and Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the ..., Volume 3

California - California - 1881 - 432 pages
...strongest points in favor of the side to which his feelings are most inclined. And if the jury is to judge of the weight of the testimony and the credibility of the witnesses, they ought to judge of that testimony as it impresses itself upon their minds, not as it impresses...
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Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit and District Courts of ..., Volume 9

United States. Circuit Court (7th Circuit), Josiah Hooker Bissell - District courts - 1882 - 612 pages
...you the truth, and that the others have not done so. The very position in which the law places you as judges of the weight of the testimony and the credibility of the witnesses, leaves it for you to say whom and what you will believe, and how much you will believe. The question,...
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Reports of Cases Decided in the Circuit and District Courts of the ..., Volume 6

Lorenzo Smith Boswell Sawyer, United States. Circuit Court (9th Circuit) - District courts - 1882 - 718 pages
...functions are simply to ascertain the facts . Of the facts you are the sole jndges. You are the jndges of the weight of the testimony, and the credibility of the witnesses, and it is for you, from all the testimony in the case, to determine the facts, and when you determine the...
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The Pacific Reporter, Volume 95

Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 1164 pages
...testimony. This is directly in conflict with the rule of evidence that the jury are the sole and exclusive judges of the weight of the testimony and the credibility of the witnesses, which was given in another instruction by the court. The refusal of this Instruction was not error....
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The Pacific Reporter, Volume 122

Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 1164 pages
...that the instruction given was erroneous, that the defendant was entitled to have the Jury pass upon the weight of the testimony and the credibility of the witnesses, and the instruction of the court invaded the province of the jury in that respect. For this reason the...
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The Southwestern Reporter, Volume 5

Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 1042 pages
...to and govern the judge or this court in passing upon the right to bail? Upon final trial, the jury are the judges of the weight of the testimony and the credibility of the witnesses ; and when they have performed this duty, and rendered a verdict of guilty, this court is loath to disturb...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of Texas, Volume 23

Texas. Court of Appeals - Criminal law - 1887 - 848 pages
...to and govern the judge, or the court, in passing upon the right to bail? Upon final' trial the jury are the judges of the weight of the testimony and the credibility of the witnesses; and when they have performed this duty and rendered a verdict of guilty, this court is loath to disturb...
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The Southern Reporter, Volume 28

Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1044 pages
...regardless of the number of the witnesses who have testified on either side." "(31) You are the sole judges of the weight of the testimony and the credibility of the witnesses. You have the right to reject the evidence of any witness if you regard It as unreasonable, and as in...
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The Southwestern Reporter, Volume 3

Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 1024 pages
...Tex. App. 401. Now, in the case under consideration, without being told that they were the exclusive judges of the weight of the testimony, and the credibility of the witnesses, we can well imagine that the jury might have felt bound by the evidence, no matter how much soever...
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