Illinois Central Railroad v. Acuff

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that trial court’s instruction to jury that it need not consider whether Gamer was correctional institution, if it found that “[the incident] occurred at Gamer,” constituted harmless error beyond reasonable doubt
• trial judge’s ability to ques- tion prospective jurors facilitates its task of excluding from jury any person about whom it entertains doubts regarding impartiality
• “ ‘a supplemental charge is likely to enjoy special prominence in the minds of the jurors because it is fresher in their minds when they deliberate’ ”
• similarly cautioning about attempts to clarify meaning of “reasonable doubt”
• similarly cautioning about attempts to clarify meaning of \reasonable doubt\
• appellate courts should read instructions as whole

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).