Sims v. State

ON state’s motion for rehearing

GRAVES, Presiding Judge.

In the state’s motion for rehearing, it is contended that each separate and distinct objection to the court’s charge should have been embodied in a separate bill of exception instead of including the objections and exceptions to the different portions of the charge in a single bill of exception.

The statute, Art. 658, C.C.P., merely provides that in each felony case “the Judge shall, before the argument begins, deliver to the Jury, except in pleas of guilty where a Jury has been waived, a written charge, distinctly setting forth the law…