Maryland Hospital Laundry v. Marshall

GILBERT, Chief Judge.

We iterate what the late Judge J. Dudley Digges wrote in State v. Grady, 276 Md. 178, 186, 345 A.2d 436 (1975), aff'g Grady v. State, 24 Md.App. 85, 329 A.2d 726 (1974):

“[I]t is not always appropriate to quote from appellate decisions in jury instructions since the language employed in a particular opinion may not adequately inform jurors of their responsibility. Flohr v. Coleman, 245 Md. 254, 262, 225 A.2d 868 (1967); Garfinkle v. Birnios, 232 Md. 402, 404, 194 A.2d 91 (1963); Neas v. Bohlen, 174 Md. *185696, 199 A. 852 (1938). See generally 75 Am.Jur.2d Trial § 611…