Territory v. Awana

DISSENTING OPINION OP

PERRY, X

In instruction No. 9 the jury was told that “in determining the weight to be given the testimony of the witnesses you are authorized to consider their relationship to the parties, if any, their interest, if any, in the result of this case, their temper, feeling or bias,” etc.; and in No. 10 it was instructed that “in determining the degree of credibility that shall be accorded to his testimony” (defendant’s) “the jury have a right to take into consid eration the fact that he is interested in the result of the prosecution as well as his demeanor and conduct upon…