Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1857

Commonwealth v. Lawrence

Commonwealth v. Lawrence
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided October 15, 1857 · Metcalf
75 Mass. 133

Commonwealth v. Lawrence

Opinion of the Court

Metcalf, J.

The only question in this case is, whether the instructions given to the jury, concerning their rights and duty in deciding upon the law and the facts, were such as ought to have been given. We doubt whether those instructions were, in all respects, accurate. If they were not, it is, in our judgment, because they were more favorable to the defendant than they ought to have been, and therefore she has no legal cause for objecting to them. Exceptions overruled.

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