To impose a burden, obligation, or lien; to create a claim against property; to claim, to demand; to accuse; to instruct a jury on matters of law. In the first sense above given, a jury in a criminal case is ÒchargedÓ with the duty of trying the prisoner (or, as otherwise expressed, with his fate or his ÒdeliveranceÓ) as soon as they are impaneled and sworn, and at this moment the prisonerÕs legal ÒjeopardyÓ begins. This is altogether a different matter from ÒchargingÓ the jury in the sense of giving them instructions on matters of law, which is a function of the court. Tomasson v. State, 112 Tenn. 590, 79 S. W. 803.
