Reddick v. State

1. In the absence of a request to charge to that effect, a new trial is not required by the omission of the court to charge the jury in a criminal case that they are the judges of the law and the facts; or that they are to ascertain the facts from the evidence and the defendant’s statement, and are to take the law as given them in charge by the court, and, by applying the law thus given to the facts so ascertained, make up their verdict. The fact that the jury are not specially instructed that they are judges of the'law and the facts in criminal cases (there being in the charge no reference…