State v. Johnson

Statement op the Case.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Nicholls, C. J.

The defendant appeals from the verdict of a jury and a life sentence in the penitentiary, having been tried under an indictment for murder.

The only bill of exception in the record is one taken to two detached sentences in the judge’s charge to the jury, in which he said:

“No person has a right to kill another because he was invited to enter into his house, and to follow and kill him without cause or provocation, and if he does it is murder.”

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