Indiana Supreme Court, 1847

Townsend v. Doe ex dem. Chapin

Indiana Supreme Court · Decided January 21, 1847

8 Blackf. 328; 1847 Ind. LEXIS 11

Cases that cite this one

8 later published cases cite this decision.

Cutler v. Davidson (Ind. Ct. App. 1925)
Boggs v. United States (Okla. 1901)
Stephenson v. State (Ind. 1887)
Bradway v. Waddell (Ind. 1884)
Ohio & Mississippi Railway Co. v. Rowland (Ind. 1875)
State v. Potter (Kan. 1875)
Lung v. Deal (Ind. 1861)
McClay v. State (Ind. 1849)

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Opinion of the Court

AFTER the testimony in this case was closed, the defendants moved that every instruction, or modification, or explanation thereof to the jury, should be in writing, and objected *329to any instruction, or modification, or explanation thereof being given, unless the same should be written. Held, that the Court, by afterwards giving, at the plaintiff’s request, instructions to the jury with verbal explanations and illustrations, committed an error. Stat. 1839, ,p. 37.

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