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New Cases: Selected Chiefly from Decisions of the Courts of the State of New ... - Page 317
by Austin Abbott - 1894
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Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in ..., Volume 269

Illinois. Supreme Court - 1916 - 710 pages
...their being found in the designated pockets tended to prove the charge and to identify the robbers. It was the province of the jury to determine the credibility of the witnesses, and the established rule is that this court will not reverse a judgment of conviction unless the court...
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Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in ..., Volume 300

Illinois. Supreme Court - 1922 - 700 pages
...76 id. 149.) In trials before a jury, where the evidence is conflicting on questions of fact, it is the province of the jury to determine the credibility of the witnesses testifying in the case and determine whether a fact alleged or crime charged has been proven. The jury...
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The Pacific Reporter, Volume 132

1913 - 1236 pages
...Hanna and that of the depot policeman at St. Joseph and a woman clerk In a hotel at that place. As It was the province of the jury to determine the credibility of the witnesses, and the jury found In favor of Mrs. Hanna, It must be assumed that they gave credit to the testimony...
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The Northeastern Reporter, Volume 76

1906 - 1172 pages
...presumption that an unlmpeached witness has testified truly, ала such Instructions infringe upon the province of the jury to determine the credibility of the witnesses and the weight and value of their testimony. Hauser v. People, 210 111. 253, 71 NB 416 ; 30 Am. & Eng....
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The South Western Reporter, Volume 125

1910 - 1384 pages
...336; Dec. Dig. § 141.*] 2. TRIAL (§§ 139, 140*)— DIRECTION OF VERDICT — WHEN AUTHORIZED. It is the province of the jury to determine the credibility of the witnesses and the weight of their testimony. [Ed. Note.— For other cases, see Trial, Cent Dig. SI 332-341 ;...
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The New York Supplement, Volume 29

1894 - 1240 pages
...mere matter of opinion. The illicit relations which had subsisted between the defendant (appellant) and the woman endowed the former with personal knowledge...below, in 'the presence of evidence, however slight, or however incredible it may seem to us, which tends to support the verdict in its essential particulars....
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A Treatise on General Practice: Containing Rules and Suggestions ..., Volume 2

Byron Kosciusko Elliott, William Frederick Elliott - 1894 - 882 pages
...features of the evidence and tell them to give the same "great weight," are erroneous as trenching on the province of the jury to determine the credibility of the witnesses 1 See Patterson v. State, 70 Ind. 341 ; Logansport v. Justice, 74 Ind. 378; Seaboard Mfg. Co. P.Woodson,...
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Reports of Cases Decided in the Appellate Courts of the State of ..., Volume 49

Illinois. Appellate Court, Edwin Burritt Smith, Martin L. Newell - 1894 - 742 pages
...Hulse v. Tollman. 490 Province of the Jury to Determine the Credibility of the Witnesses. — It is the province of the jury to determine the credibility of the witnesses, and an instruction which takes from them the right of weighing the testimony is erroneous. Kelley v....
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American Negligence Cases: A Complete Collection of All Reported ..., Volume 9

1899 - 856 pages
...trial by jury, which is the constitutional right of every suitor in the courts of common law. It is the province of the jury to determine the credibility of the witnesses and the weight of the evidence under proper directions in respect to the principles of law applicable...
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The South Western Reporter, Volume 94

1906 - 1260 pages
...the men in charge of the second section, and they all placed the blame for the accident upon him. It was the province of the Jury to determine the credibility of the witnesses. They had a right to believe Hall If they saw fit to do so and disbelieve all the other witnesses. They...
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