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- Title: John L. Harper v. State of Mississippi
- Author : Supreme Court of Mississippi
- Release Date : January 16, 1985
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 72 KB
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This appeal presents important questions respecting the nature and extent of the trial judges responsibility with regard to instructing juries in the law in criminal cases. We answer these questions by declaring that, where under the evidence a party is entitled to have the jury instructed regarding a particular issue and where that party requests an instruction which for whatever reason is inadequate in form or content, the trial judge has the responsibility either to reform and correct the proffered instruction himself or to advise counsel on the record of the perceived deficiencies therein and to afford counsel a reasonable opportunity to prepare a new, corrected instruction. Where the trial judge fails in this duty and where the proffered instruction relates to a central issue in the case which is not covered by any other instruction given to the jury, we will reverse.