Chandler v. State

1. The assignment of error on the alleged failure of the court to charge the jury on the contention of the defendant that he shot the person (charged in the indictment to have been shot by him) in his own defense, is without merit. The charge of the court sufficiently covered that contention, although no direct mention of either the defendant’s or the State’s contentions was made in the charge.

2. “A correct statement of law embraced in a charge to the jury is not erroneous because the court failed in the same connection to give to the jury 'other appropriate instructions.” Hill v. State, 18…