Opinion ID: 2199758
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Heading Rank: 26

Heading: Was error committed by the court in its charge or in its refusal to make any of the requested charges?

Text: Various errors are alleged in the refusal to charge as requested and in the charge made relating to the testimony of accomplices, reasonable doubt and alibi. The trial court is not required to charge as requested in the precise language submitted where the subject matter has correctly and fully been covered in the charge. State v. Tansimore, 3 N.J. 516, 526 (1950): State v. Roscus, 16 N.J. 415, 426 (1954); State v. Tune, 17 N.J. 100, 116 (1954). The portions of the charge complained of in most instances were taken verbatim from cases which have been approved on appeal. We have reviewed each point submitted and see no error. The charge as a whole, taken in its full context, was a fair and complete resume of the law as applicable to the case on trial, with full recognition and protection to the defendants and their respective constitutional rights.