Fire Commissioner v. Joseph

How courts have described this case

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

• “[J]urors cannot be called to account for their verdict. This, however, is far from saying that it is their legal province to override the law laid down by the court, and to declare it for themselves.”
• “The doctrine that jurors are judges of the law in criminal cases is repugnant to ... the constitution of Vermont, which guaranty to every person within this state ‘a certain remedy’ for all wrongs, conformably to the laws.... ”
• “The doctrine that jurors are judges of the law in criminal cases is repugnant to .... the constitution of Vermont, which guaranty to every person within this state ‘a certain remedy’ for all wrongs, conformably to the laws.... ”
• overruling State v. Croteau, 23 Vt. 14 (1849)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).