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146 Ind. 500

State v. Ray

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided January 5, 1897

Indiana Supreme Court · decided 1897-01-05

<p>Appeal and Eeeoe. — Assignment of Error. — Instructions to Jury.— Where an exception is made to the instructions given as an entirety, unless all of the instructions given were erroneous, an appeal thereon cannot he sustained.</p>

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently April 1914

3 state decisions

Relies on Lawrence v. Van Buskirk

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Affirmed · Decided 1897-01-05

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Monks, J.

¶1Appellee was prosecuted and acquitted of the crime of obtaining a bill of exchange by false pretenses.

¶2The court gave to the jury thirty-four instructions *501at the request of appellee, to the giving of which appellant excepted. The exception was to the instructions given as an entirety, and not to each instruction separately. The giving of these instructions is assigned as error.

¶3Under the well settled rule, unless all of said thirty-f.our instructions were, erroneous this appeal cannot be sustained. Lawrence v. Van Buskirk, 140 Ind. 481, and cases cited.

¶4It is not claimed by appellant that all of said instructions are erroneous, and objections are only urged against part of them. Some of said instructions correctly stated the law and, under the rule, we can not review the action of the trial court in giving the others, however erroneous they may be.

¶5The appeal is therefore not sustained.

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