State v. Jones

On exceptions. The respondent was tried on an indictment charging that he, while being then and there on a hunting trip, did feloniously, negligently and carelessly shoot and wound a human being. The case was tried at the December Term, 1955, of the Superior Court within and for the County of Hancock. Upon conviction by the jury the respondent was sentenced. The case is before us on the following exceptions:

1. To a portion of the presiding justice’s charge to the jury which, in substance, charged civil negligence and carelessness.

The excepted portion of the charge also contains instruction by…