State v. Sutton

The court below in its charge instructed the jury as follows:

“There has been testimony offered regarding the character and the conduct of Louise Ramsey and her aunt, Edna' Davis, and Sallie Ramsey and her aunt, Edna Davis. The Court charges you that while this testimony is not competent as bearing upon the question of the guilt or innocence of the defendant, that it is material for you to consider only as bearing on the inclination, disposition, likelihood or the lack of it, of the defendant to indulge in this manner of conduct.”

Whether this instruction, as it appears in the record, conveys…