Commonwealth v. Kelsey

Citations

• 76 Pa. Super. 193
• 1921 Pa. Super. LEXIS 114

Syllabus

<p>Oriminal law — Fornication and bastardy — Adultery—Reasonable doubt — Instructions to jury — Charge of the court.</p> <p>Where in the trial of an indictment for adultery and fornication and bastardy, the court carefully and fully instructed the jury as to reasonable doubt, it is not reversible error thí t some sentences taken from the charge by themselves were unfavorable or seemed so to the defendant.</p> <p>No request having been made for special instructions, and the court having reviewed the testimony with exceptional care, there is no reversible error in a charge simply because the court said “You have no right to give anybody the benefit of a doubt” and in another place “It (reasonable doubt) does not mean that you should just lightly say, ‘Oh, well, there is a doubt in this case and we will give him the benefit of the doubt.’ ”</p>