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· 3/30/1889

Souter v. Maguire

Citations

  • 78 Cal. 543
  • 21 P. 183
  • 1889 Cal. LEXIS 634

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the trial court’s instruction that the jury was the arbiter of witness credibility and that it should give consideration to motives, adequately covered possible motive or bias of State’s witnesses
  • the “possible motive, interest, or bias of the State’s witnesses” was “adequately covered” by the instruction that the jury “was the arbiter of each witness’s credibility and that it should give consideration to each witness’s interest or lack thereof in the outcome of the case”

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Judges: Hayne

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