State v. Cammeyer

Citations

• 8 La. Ann. 312

Syllabus

<p>The Judge of the District Court was requested to charge the jury that.the facts, as sworn to, did not constitute larceny. By the Cov/i't: the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court extends to criminal cases, on questions of law alone, and if we were to examine the facts on which the jury found the verdict, in order to determine whether the Court below erred in refusing to charge them that those facts did not constitute larceny, we would certainly be exceeding our jurisdiction, and deciding on. the facts as well as the law. The facts proved in a cause constitute a basis for presumptions which can only be drawn by the jury, who are the legitimate judges of the law and fact in the finding of a general verdict, the only restraint on them consisting in the power of the Judge to set aside their verdict, when it is contraiy io the law or the evidence.</p>