Brierre v. Cereal Sugar Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Plainly the theory involves the absurdity, that an error of the judge may be revised, yet an error of the jury as to the law, which may be fatal to the prisoner, can never be[.]”
• “At common law, the jury only maintained the right and responsibility to act under the instructions of the court and apply the law given to them to the facts proven with the mission of determining guilt.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).