State v. Addy

Citations

• 28 S.C. 4
• 4 S.E. 814
• 1888 S.C. LEXIS 14

Syllabus

<p>1. The judge must carefully avoid expressing an opinion on the facts, leaving it to the jury to draw their own conclusions entirely unbiassed by any impression which the testimony may make upon the mind of the judge. He must not in any way indicate his opinion of the facts to the jury.</p> <p>2. The judge charged upon the facts in this ease, in intimating to the jury that he did not believe defendant’s testimony, and in cautioning them against accepting as true the statements made by a man when on trial for his life.</p>