Strawderman v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that “instructions attempting to define reasonable doubt should be discouraged” because they may confuse or mislead the jury
• commenting \that instructions attempting to define reasonable doubt should be discouraged as it is highly probable that any definition devised would be less illuminating than the expression itself\
• finding it to be “common knowledge” that vaginal injuries could have been caused by means other than penetration, such as fondling
• commenting \that instructions attempting to define reasonable doubt should be dis- couraged as it is highly probable that any definition devised would be less illuminating than the expression itself\
• whether injury to child was caused by a penis or other circumstance is an issue of ultimate fact
• whether injury to child was caused by a penis or other circumstance is an issue of ultimate fact

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).