Richardson v. State

Hall, Justice.

The first question made by this record is whether, in a criminal trial, the judge, in his charge to the jury, should instruct them that the evidence, to authorize a conviction, should be of so conclusive a character and tendency as to exclude reasonable doubt; and failing so to charge, whether the omission is such error as to require the verdict to be set aside and a new trial granted, when his attention was not called to it and no request was made by the defendant or his counsel to supply it. Under the several rulings of this court, the point here made is not free from…