Richard v. U.S. Repeating Arms Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• A trial court “can only bind ... the jury as to what evidence shall be considered by” the jury.
• The legal definition of a “disorderly house” is a matter for the jury
• The legal definition of a \disorderly house\ is a matter for the jury
• “Whenever, however, the Judge has thought it proper to instruct, it has always been deemed necessary that he should be careful to put the instruction in an advisory form ....”
• “The [trial court] ... cannot, by any instruction given in a criminal case, bind the jury as to the definition of the crime, or as to the legal effect of the evidence before them.” (Emphasis added)
• “The [trial court] . . . cannot, by any instruction given in a criminal case, bind the jury as to the definition of the crime, or as to the legal effect of the evidence before them.” (Emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).