Brindle v. State

The provisions of section 1056 of the Penal Code are not complied with by directing the official'stenographer of the court to take down, in the course of the trial and as delivered to the jury, the oral utterances of the judge in his charge. Of course, the judge may, for his own convenience, dictate to the stenographer what he intends to read to the jury, and have it transcribed, so that he can read it, but the charge must be reduced to a legible condition and placed in a form in which it can be “known and read of all men,” before the judge delivers it by reading it to the jury. In most cases…