| 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 of fact, but may state the testimony and declare the law. Sec. — . The Judges, Chancellors, or Justices of the Inferioi Courts of Law and... | |
| 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... | |
| Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 632 pages
...defendant. CR Train, Attorney General, for the Commonwealth. MORTON, J. The statute which provides that "the courts shall not charge juries with respect to matters of fact," prohibits the expression by the judge in his charge to the jury of his opinion as to the credibility... | |
| California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 692 pages
...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
...office than a judicial office during the term for which they shall have been elected. SEC. 17. Judges gress assembled. ARTICLE IX. The United States in Congress assembled, shall have the sol declare the law. SEC. 18. The style of all process shall be, "The People of the State of California,"... | |
| Nevada. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 1090 pages
...disregarding tho previous provisions of that instrument. The language of the constitution is : that 'Judges shall not charge juries with respect to matters of fact, but may state the testimony and declare the law.' (Const. Art. VI, Sec. 17.) This provision is violated when['-448] ever *a judge so... | |
| Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - Law reports, digests, etc - 1881 - 678 pages
...there the courts are prohibited, by section 17, article VI. of the constitution, • from charging juries with respect to matters of fact, but may state the testimony and declare the law. Even there the courts have decided that the constitutional inhibition above referred... | |
| California - Constitutions - 1879 - 442 pages
...a judicial office during the term for which they shall have been elected. • [1852.J § 17. Judges shall not charge juries with respect to matters of fact, but may state the testimony and declare the law. [1862.] § 18. The style of all process shall be: "The People of the State of California,"... | |
| California - Constitutions - 1879 - 216 pages
...judicial office or employment during the term for which they shall have been elected. § 19. Judges shall not charge juries with respect to matters of fact, but may state the testimony and declare the law. § 20. The style of all process shall be, "The People of the State of California,"... | |
| California - California - 1879 - 308 pages
...elected. (Amendment, proposed 1861 ; ratified 3d September, 1862.) Charge to juries. SEC. 17. Judges shall not charge juries with respect to matters of fact, but may state the testimony and declare the law.' (Amendment, proposed 1861 ; ratified 3d September, 1862.) Style of process. SEC.... | |
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