Topic: understood by the average juror in their common usage. · Go Syfert
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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 11 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Thornton v. State.

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1 Thornton v. State Anchor
alacrimapp · 1990
green “understood by the average juror in their common usage.” 6
2 Ivery v. State
alacrimapp · 1996
green “when a term is included in a statute relevant to a case, and that term is not defined by statute, whether it is necessary for the trial court to define the term for the jury hinges on the facts of the case.” 5

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