 | John Andrew Graham - Law - 1812 - 96 pages
...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... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1849 - 680 pages
...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 - Manchester (Eng.) - 1802 - 454 pages
...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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 798 pages
...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... | |
 | Connecticut. Supreme Court of Errors - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 712 pages
...which the whole case is submitted to the consideration of the jury, with the instruction that they are the judges of the law as well as of the facts. Indeed the whole charge is one of singular ability, and, with one exception now to be noticed, is characterized... | |
 | Edmund Hatch Bennett, Franklin Fiske Heard - Criminal law - 1857 - 642 pages
...cited, and the reason for such a conclusion well stated by Dargan, CJ " We know," said he, " it has becn said by courts of respectable authority, that the...think this opinion arises from not distinguishing betwecn the powers that a jury may assume to exercise, and the duties confided to them by law."] It... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - Law reports, digests, etc - 1867 - 664 pages
...it was treated, and perhaps correctly, as presenting the question, whether jurors in criminal trials are the judges of the law as well as of the facts, and consequently whether it is proper for courts to give them peremptory instructions upon the legal... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 714 pages
...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... | |
 | 1867 - 864 pages
...the jury has more power than in any other country in the world, not excepting England. Our jurymen are the judges of the law as well as of the facts. The Bench can merely give them its opinion; they can reject that opinion if they think proper, as indeed... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1867 - 1310 pages
...uncontroverted, that was a question of law. The further objection taken, that in criminal cases the jury are the judges of the law as well as of the facts, has received the most full consideration of the court, in a case previously Williston r. Morse. argued.... | |
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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. 
