Carroll v. Roberts

23 Ga. 492

• Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
• Decided: November 15, 1857
• Status: Published

Opinion

By the Court. —

Lumpkin, J.

delivering the opinion.

The only question in this case is, whether it is error in the Court to charge the jury, that certain portions of the testimony which have been submitted during the trial is, competent! evidence ?

The complaint is, that the jury may have misunderstood the Judge; and have supposed that he meant, that the proof referred to, was sufficient to control the case. And it is possible that such may have been the fact. There is no proof, however, of any such misapprehension. It is mere conjecture, without any showing from the jury itself or from any other quarter to support it.

Besides it was the duty of counsel at the time, to have called the attention of the Judge to the subject, to have suggested at least the possibility of a mistake, in order that it might be explained. In the absence of all testimony to the contrary, we are bound to presume, that the jury understood the Judge: and if so, it was not error to state to them that certain evidence, the admissibility of which was objected to during the progress of the trial, was competent; leaving its sufficiency to be passed upon by them.

Judgment affirmed.