Court Opinion

ID: 9826247
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 15:40:47.46069+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:41:58.584531
License: Public Domain

Mr. Acting Associate Justice Purdys
I dissent solely upon the ground that the remarks made to the jury upon which a reversal is based relate to a matter of such common *249knowledge that the jury could not in any way have been prejudiced thereby, and, in the face of such overwhelming evidence of guilt, the verdict and judgment should not be disturbed. In any case where the facts are admitted to be true, or are not controverted, it is not error to so state in a charge to the jury. Here, the facts adverted to by the trial Judge are known by anybody -to be as stated, and hence known to the jury, and while language which may be construed as charging on the facts should not be indulged in, such language ought not to be deemed to be prejudical when it simply states facts, as in this case, as to which there cannot be a difference of opinion.