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The Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of Ohio from the Earliest Period ... - Page 1199
by William Herbert Page - 1918
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The Pacific Reporter, Volume 135

Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 1406 pages
...the qualifying clause or its equivalent were incorporated therein. In view, however, that the jury are the sole Judges of the weight to be given to the evidence and of the credibility of the witnesses, such instructions, as we have already said, are not of great Importance and should...
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The Pacific Reporter, Volume 186

Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 1148 pages
...the character sought to be established, as well as upon the character of the evidence offered, au.-l you are the sole judges of the weight to be given to the evidence. (I charge you that evidence of good character and good reputation is sufficient to raise a reasonable...
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The Pacific Reporter, Volume 16

Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 1022 pages
...wholly within the province of the latter. In deducing the ultimate fact of guilt or innocence, they are the sole judges of the weight to be given to the probative fact of possession of property recently stolen, and of all the circumstances surrounding...
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The Northwestern Reporter, Volume 22

Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 1070 pages
...the proposition imply that the question before the jury was one of "doubt; and in such cases the jury are the sole judges of the weight to be given to the evidence. The court has no right to speculate upon its probable effect in a doubtful case. Thus we see that the...
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Reports of Cases Decided in the Appellate Courts of the State of ..., Volume 21

Illinois. Appellate Court, Edwin Burritt Smith, Martin L. Newell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 706 pages
...This would not justify an instruction of this kind under the practice in this State where the jury are the sole judges of the weight to be given to the evidence. In these same texts the commentators say that this class of evidence is "the weakest and most unsatisfactory,''...
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The Southwestern Reporter, Volume 65

Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 1302 pages
...verdict for the defendant. "(9) The jury are exclusive judges of the credibility of the witnesses and of the weight to be given to the evidence, and of the facts proven, and they will decide all issues submitted to them according to the preponderance of the...
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Reports of Cases Decided in the Appellate Courts of the State of ..., Volume 40

Illinois. Appellate Court, Edwin Burritt Smith, Martin L. Newell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 718 pages
...Miller v. Balthasser, 78 111. 302, and to the principle of Boylston v. Bain, 90 111. 283. The jury are the sole judges of the weight to be given to the testimony of each witness. Shaw v. People, 81 111. 150. There is no more in courts than on the street,...
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Reports of the Decisions of the Appellate Courts of the State of ..., Volume 8

Illinois. Appellate Court, James Bolesworth Bradwell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 732 pages
...Parsons on Partnership, 230; Paine v. Thatcher, 25 'Wend. 450; Weaver v. Upton, 7 Ired. 458. The jury are the sole judges of the weight to be given to the testimony of a witness; and when the testimony is conflicting the court will not disturb the verdict:...
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The General Principles of the Law of Evidence: In Their Application to the ...

Frank Sumner Rice - Criminal procedure - 1894 - 1062 pages
...wholly within the province of the latter. In adducing the ultimate fact of guilt or innocence, they are the sole judges of the weight to be given to the probative fact of possession of property recently stolen, and of all the circumstances surrounding...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Ohio Circuit Courts...: Ohio ...

William John Tossell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 744 pages
...should have obtained from this fact, it claims was destroyed by the following part of the charge : "You are the sole judges of the weight to be given...witnesses called on either side. The question remains for yon to determine without regard to the number of witnesses, where the real truth lies. As you shall...
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