State v. Collins
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Bremer District Gourt. Practice : mode op instructing jury : testimony op WIPE : ALIBI : CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE: QUANTUM OP PROOP: NEW TRIALS IN CRIMINAL CASES, &G. — 'The defendant was indicted in Floyd, and the venue changed to Bremer county.
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Appeal from, Bremer District Gourt. Practice : mode op instructing jury : testimony op WIPE : ALIBI : CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE: QUANTUM OP PROOP: NEW TRIALS IN CRIMINAL CASES, &G. — 'The defendant was indicted in Floyd, and the venue changed to Bremer county. The defendant was the clerk of L. L. Huntley, county treasurer of Floyd county. • The first count of the indictment charges the defendant with the embezzlement of money and United States bonds of the value of $2,000, the property of Huntley. The second count is for the larceny of the same property, also alleged to belong to Huntley. Plea,…
1Opinion of the CourtDillon, J.
i. instbucmethod of charging the jury.
The court below did not give any charge of its own to the jury, but gave a series of eleven instructions, in the language in which the State’s attorney framed them, relating to detached portions J / o 0f the cause; and, also, gave and modified, and refused to give, other instructions asked by the defendant’s counsel.
The object of instructions is to give the jury clear and correct notions of the nature of the case and of the law applicable thereto. Instructions which would be proper in one case would be improper, because inapplicable, in another. When a…
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