Scurlock v. Yarbrough

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he trial court could not have directed a verdict of acquittal because there is no verdict in a bench trial. Therefore, even if a motion for a directed verdict was made, such a motion has no meaning when a case is tried without a jury.”
• “the trial court could not have directed a verdict . . . because there is no verdict in a bench trial. . . . [E]ven if a motion for directed verdict was made, such a motion has no meaning when a case is tried without a jury.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).