Court Opinion

ID: 8062886
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-09 04:41:01.216925+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:38:07.022577
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Garrison, J.
The plaintiff in error, having been convicted in the Hudson Sessions of atrocious assault, brings this writ of error to review that judgment. The first assignment of error is directed at the following language of the charge: “There has been some suggestion by counsel for the defendant that this prosecution is laying the foundation for a civil suit. That is a matter you have nothing to do with. It has *34no place in this case at all. Your simple duty is to determine whether upon the testimony produced before you in this hearing this defendant is guilty as charged, and if you are satisfied from such testimony that he is guilty, then it is your duty to say so, otherwise you should acquit him.” This assignment requires no discussion. It is not pretended that counsel did not make the suggestion ascribed to him in the charge, and if he did there can be no difference of opinion as to the entire propriety of the judge’s reference to it.
The remaining assignments discussed in the brief of counsel relate to comments contained in the charge that are not subjects of reversal upon error. The charge, as a whole, clearly informed the jury as to their right and duty in dealing with disputed questions of fact. Bruce v. Carter, 3 Vroom 554; Castner v. Sliker, 4 Id. 507; Smith v. Bennett, 12 Id. 370; State v. Engle, 21 Id. 272.
The judgment of the Hudson Quarter Sessions is affirmed.