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

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI PLAINTIFFVS.NO. AND DEFENDANTS INSTRUCTION NO. Members of the jury, you have heard all of the testimony and received the evidence and will shortly hear the arguments of counsel. The Court will instruct you on the rules of law which you will use and apply to the evidence in reaching your verdict. When you took your places in the jury box, you made an oath that you would follow and apply these rules of law to the evidence in reaching your verdict in this case. It is, therefore, your duty as jurors to follow the law which I shall now state to you. 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 your verdict upon any view of the law other than that given by the Court in these instructions.You are not to single out one instruction alone as stating the law, but you must consider these instructions as a whole.It is your exclusive province to determine the facts in this case and to consider and weigh the evidence for that purpose. The authority thus vested in you is not an arbitrary power but must be exercised with sincere judgment, sound discretion and in accordance with the rules of law stated to you by the Court.Both the Plaintiff and the Defendants have the right to expect that you will conscientiously consider and weigh the evidence and apply the law to this case. It is your duty to determine the facts and to determine them from the evidence produced in open court. You are to apply the law to the facts and in this way decide the case. You should not be influenced by bias, sympathy or prejudice.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 in this case.The evidence which you are to consider consists of the testimony and statements of the witnesses and the exhibits offered and received. You are also permitted to draw such reasonable inferences from the evidence as seem justified in the light of your own experience.Arguments, statements and remarks of counsel are intended to help you understand the evidence and apply the law, but are not evidence. If any argument, statement or remark has no basis in the evidence. then you should disregard that argument, statement or remark.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 yourself with the reasons for the Court's rulings since they are controlled and governed by rules of law. You should not infer from any rulings that the Court has any opinion on the merits favoring one side or another. You should not speculate as to the 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.If, in stating the law to you, I repeat any rule, direction or idea, or if I state the 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.