State v. Sandt

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Bergen, J.

The defendants were convicted in the Hudson Quarter Sessions on an indictment charging them with keeping a disorderly house. Two grounds of reversal are argued. The first of which challenges the legal correctness of an instruction given by the court on the question of reasonable doubt. The instruction was: “If these men are convicted they must be convicted on testimony which leaves in your minds no reasonable doubt of their guilt. If, after a consideration of all the testimony, you are satisfied that the men are not guilty beyond a reasonable…