DEMURRER TO EVIDENCE

By SovConn | July 4, 2014

demurrer to evidence.A party’s objection or exception that the evidence is legally insufficient

to make a case. • Its effect, upon joinder in the demurrer by the opposite party, is that the jury is

discharged and the demurrer is entered on record and decided by the court. A demurrer to evidence

admits the truth of all the evidence and the legal deductions from that evidence. [Cases: Criminal

Law    752; Trial    150. C.J.S. Trial §§ 384–386, 391.] [Blacks Law 8th]

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