 | Tennessee. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1870 - 480 pages
..... ferior Courts, shall be as now established by law, until changed by the Legislature. Sec. — . Judges shall not charge juries with respect to matters...fact, but may state the testimony and declare the law. Sec. — . The Judges, Chancellors, or Justices of the Inferioi Courts of Law and Equity, shall have... | |
 | Charles W. Langdon - Constables - 1870 - 858 pages
...264. The above definition and rules are deducible from the laws and decisions which follow : SEC. 3. Judges shall not charge juries with respect to matters...fact, but may state the testimony and declare the law. Const. Cal. Art. IV, Sec. 17. SEC. 4. • In charging the jury, the court shall state to them all matters... | |
 | Tennessee - History - 1870 - 468 pages
...by law until changed by the Legislature. Section 9 as in the present Constitution, to-wit : Sec. 9. Judges shall not charge juries with respect to matters...fact, but may state the testimony and declare the law. Sec. 10. The Judges of Inferior Courts of Law and Equity, shall have power in civil cases to issue... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 728 pages
...argued by the attorney general, that the Gen. Sts. c. 115, § 5, having provided that " the courts shall not charge juries with respect to matters of fact, but may state the testimony and the law," a judge has now no authority in this Commonwealth to advise the jury as to the weight to... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Freed persons - 1871 - 670 pages
...veto, but two-thirds of each boose may pass a bill over the veto. Judges «ball not charge juries in $ All contracts, whether under seal or not, the •xmsideration of which were for the purchase of «laves,... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 730 pages
...because within Art. TI. sec. 17 of the Constitution, which declares that " Judges shall not clmrge juries with respect to matters of fact, but may state the testimony and declare tho law." ^ 1 JTOOE TO DECIDE THE LAW AND THE JURY THE FACTS. — This provision is violated £ / „... | |
 | California - California - 1872 - 738 pages
...elected. othor offices. Charge of SEC. 17. Judges shall not charge juries with respect Judges to iuries. to matters of fact, but may state the testimony and declare the law. NOTE. — The Judge cannot express an opinion upon the weight of evidence, but may state the evidence... | |
 | South Carolina - Law - 1873 - 1164 pages
...General Assembly may, from time to time, by law direct. SECTION 2(i. Judges .shall riot charge juries in respect to matters of fact, but may state the testimony and declare the law. SECTION 27. There shall be elected in each County, by the electors thereof, one Clerk for the Court... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 692 pages
...bo deemed a question of fact, and not of law." And section 17 of article 6 of the Consitution says, "Judges shall not charge juries with respect to matters of fact, but may state testimony ; and deliver the law. " In construing the section above quoted from the Statue of Frauds,... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - Constitutional law - 1877 - 1054 pages
...be ineligible to any other office during the term for which they shall have been elected. SEC. 17. hence, by a line due north, to the degree of latitude...where it strikes the Rio Roxo of Nachitoches, or Red SE.C. 18. The style of all process shall be, "The People of the State of California." All the prosecutions... | |
| |
Judges shall not charge juries with respect to matters of fact, but may state the testimony and declare the law. 
