Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 10/15/1845
Commonwealth v. Porter
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- 51 Mass. 263
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- “[I]t is the duty of the court to give instructions to the jury on all questions of law which arise in a cause tried by them; and it is the duty of the jury to receive the law from the court, and to conform their ... decision to such instructions.... ”
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