Fill and Sign the Members of the Jury You Have Heard All of the Testimony and Received the Evidence Form

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI AND PLAINTIFFS VS. NO. AND DEFENDANTS INSTRUCTION NO. Members of the jury, you have heard all of the testimony and received the evidence introduced in the course of this trial. When you took your places in the jury box, you made an oath to follow and apply the instructions of the Court regarding the law. The Court will now instruct you as to the rules of law which you will use and apply to the evidence in de liberating your verdict. You are not to single out one instruction as stating the law, but you must c onsider these instructions as a whole. Neither are you to be concerned with the wisdom of any rule of law. Regardless of any opinion you may have as to what the law ought to be, it would be a violation of your sworn duty to base a verdict upon any other view of the law than that give n in these instructions by the Court. If in stating the law to you I repeat any rule, direction or idea, or if I state t he same in varying ways, no emphasis is intended; and you must not draw any inference therefrom. The order in which these instructions are given has no significance as to their relative importance. It is your function to determine the facts in this case and to consider and weigh t he evidence for that purpose. You are to apply the law to the facts, and in this way decide the case. The evidence which you are to consider consists of the testimony and statements of the witnesses, any stipulations made by the attorneys, and any exhibits admitted into evidence. You are also permitted to draw such reasonable inferences from the evidence as seem j ustified in the light of your own experience. It is your prerogative to determine what weight and what credibility will be assigned the testimony and supporting evidence of each witness in this case. You are required and expected to use your good common sense and sound honest judgment in considering and weighing the testimony of each witness who has testified. You should not be influenced by bias, sympathy or prejudice. Your verdict should be based on the evidence and not upon speculation, guesswork or conj ecture. The production of evidence in Court is governed by rules of law. From time to time during the trial, it has been my duty as Judge to rule on the admissibility of evidence . You must not concern yourselves with the reasons for the Court 5 rulings since they are controlled and governed by rules of law. You should not infer from any ruling by the Court on these motions or objections to the evidence that the Court or the Judge has any opinion on the merits fa voring one side or the other. You should not speculate as to possible answers to questions which the Court did not require to be answered. Further, you should not draw any inference from the content of these questions. You are to disregard all evidence which was excluded by the Court from consideration during the course of the trial.