Renn v. Tallman

Citations

• 25 Pa. Super. 503
• 1904 Pa. Super. LEXIS 102

Syllabus

<p>Trial — Charge—Misleading charge.</p> <p>It is error to confine the attention of the jury to one view of the case when there is more than one which should be considered. If no particular instructions be asked, the court is responsible for the general effect only, of the charge, and in considering the charge the whole of it must be taken together. If when so considered it has a tendency to mislead, though no particular portion of it be clearly erroneous, it is cause for reversal.</p> <p>To instruct the jury erroneously as to the circumstances under which testimony offered by a party will become material for them to consider, may often be more prejudicial than erroneous instructions upon some abstract question of law involved in the case.</p>