 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Law reports, digests, etc - 1933 - 888 pages
...don't agree with it, it is your duty to find him not guilty." To this charge the defendant excepted. In a trial by jury in a federal court, the judge is...proper conduct and of determining questions of law. Herron v. Southern Pacific Co., 283 US 91, 95. In charging the jury, the trial judge is not limited... | |
 | Austin Wakeman Scott, Sidney Post Simpson - Civil procedure - 1946 - 998 pages
...don't agree with it, it is your duty to find him not guilty." To this charge the defendant excepted. In a trial by jury in a federal court, the judge is...proper conduct and of determining questions of law. Herron v. Southern Pacific Co., 283 US 91, 95. In charging the jury, the trial judge is not limited... | |
 | United States. Federal Security Agency. Office of the general counsel - 1946 - 118 pages
...attorney and counter-affidavit of defendant, held there was no abuse of discretion, (pp. 527-8) The trial judge is not a mere moderator but is the governor...proper conduct and of determining questions of law, and it is his duty to see that all the truth is brought out. (p. 529) While the judge has the right... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Impeachment Trial Committee - Judges - 1986 - 1076 pages
...consistently recognized the important role the trial judge plays in the federal system of criminal justice. The judge is not a mere moderator but is the governor...proper conduct and of determining questions of law. A criminal trial does not unfold like a play with actors following a script; there is no scenario and... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - Impeachments - 1986 - 78 pages
...consistently recognized the important role the trial judge plays in the federal system of criminal justice. The judge is not a mere moderator but is the governor...proper conduct and of determining questions of law. A criminal trial does not unfold like a play with actors following a script; there is no scenario and... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1987 - 1080 pages
...trial judge has the responsibility to maintain decorum in keeping with the nature of the proceeding; "the judge is not a mere moderator, but is the governor...trial for the purpose of assuring its proper conduct." Qtteraa v. United States, 289 US 466, 469 (1933). The judge "must meet situations as they arise and... | |
 | Henry H. Perritt (Jr.) - Law - 2001 - 914 pages
...postdeadlock comment to jury in first-degree murder case). 78 289 US 466 (1933). Supreme Court said: the judge is not a mere moderator, but is the governor of the trials ... it is within his province ... to assist the jury in arriving at a just conclusion by explaining... | |
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In a trial by jury in a federal court, the judge is not a mere moderator, but is the governor of the trial for the purpose of assuring its proper conduct and of determining questions of law. 
