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Charging the Jury
January 20, 1881 issue

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This article focuses on the book "Changing the Jury: A Monograph," by Seymour D. Thompson. Thompson's valuable book contains a good deal that is of interest to lay as well as to professional readers. The subject of charging the jury is one about which a hundred years ago hardly anything could have been written. The body of law, statute and common, which now makes the charge of the judge one of the most important and delicate episodes of an ordinary civil or criminal trial, is the growth of recent times. Statutes exist, as is pointed out by Thompson, in some of the States, and settle rules of procedure in others, prohibiting the judge from expressing, or even hinting, an opinion to the jury upon the facts of the case.

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CHANGING the Jury: A Monograph (Book); THOMPSON, Seymour D.; JURY; LAW; STATUTES; JUDGES
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