State v. Winsett

COURT'S CHARGE TO THE JURY

DUFFY, President Judge, charging the jury:

Members of the jury, it is my duty as a judge to instruct you in the law as it applies to this case and it is your duty as jurors to follow the law as I state it to you. It is your exclusive province to determine the facts of the case and to consider and weigh the evidence for that purpose. The authority vested in you is not an arbitrary power; it must be exercised with sincere judgment, with sound discretion, and in accordance with the rules of law I state to you.

If, in these instructions, any rule, direction or idea be…