Source: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Date: 1897-06-07
Jurisdiction: United States
Citation: 83 F. 452
Opinion
PER CURIAM. Tke paragraphs of .the general charge to which exceptions were taken and on which error is assigned, considered as ■separate propositions, may be somewhat subject to criticism and require qualification; but considered in their relation to the whole charge, and to all the proof in the case, they do not present such misdirection to the jury as did or could have misled them in their application of the whole charge to the whole proof.
The charges requested and refused, as far as they were sound and not calculated to mislead by giving undue prominence to certain features of the proof, are sufficiently embraced in the general charge of the court. Upon a full consideration of the whole case, we are satisfied that it was fairly submitted to the jury under sufficient and proper instructions, and that the judgment of the circuit court should be, and it is, affirmed.