Keiser v. State

This was a prosecution for retailing intoxicating liquor without license. Conviction.

The court charged the jury, among other things, as follows:

“Gentlemen of the jury — The law makes you the exclusive judges of the law and the evidence in this cause. But the fact that you are made the judges of what the law is does not authorize yon to make or invent law; you must determine what the law is, and be governed by the law as it is, without regard to your opinions as to the justice or injustice of the law. The law requires the court to charge you what the law is, as an aid to you in determining…