Bonner v. State

Joe (Buster) Bonner was tried under an indictment charging him with the offense of the murder of A. S. Jones. Upon the trial he was found guilty, no recommendation of mercy being made. He made a motion for a new trial, which was overruled, and he excepted.

1. The court in part charged the jury as follows: “The court charges you, when the defendant files a plea of not guilty to this bill of indictment, it puts in issue every material allegation contained therein; and it devolves upon the State to satisfy the minds of the jury by the evidence in the case beyond a reasonable doubt of the…