Brown v. State

A review of the long line of the written opinions of this court will disclose that, from the beginning of its history, it has been consistently committed to the doctrine that the best and most practical means for the ascertainment of truth upon disputed facts, in that great range of controversies which have their settings in the gei Leral and ordinary affairs of life, is to submit them , to a jury; and every member of the present court gives firm and sympathetic adherence to that principle, which, of course, embraces criminal as well as civil cases. At the same time we are not to permit…