Strickland v. State

Hall, Judge.

The defendant appeals from his conviction and sentence of three years for burglary. Held:

1. In his first enumeration of error the defendant complains of an excerpt from the charge on the State’s burden of proof wherein the court used the language that if the jury should be “reasonably certain” and “reasonably satisfied” from the evidence that the defendant was guilty they would be authorized to and should find him guilty. This excerpt must be considered in context with the rest of the charge on the State’s burden of proof, in which the court made clear several times that if the…