Legal Opinion
Sil Evans v. George Wright
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided November 4, 1974No. 73-2404PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CRAVEN, Circuit Judge:
Primarily this appeal questions the extent of the power of a federal trial judge to comment on the evidence in the course of his charge to the jury. In order to understand what we hold it will be necessary to paraphrase much of the evidence. For just as jury instructions must always “be drawn with reference to the particular facts of the case on trial,” Collazo v. United States, 90 U.S.App.D.C. 241, 196 F.2d 573, 578, cert. denied, 343 U.S. 968, 72 S.Ct. 1065, 96 L.Ed. 1364 (1952), so also we cannot in telligently review an instruction in the abstract. Although…
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