Walker v. State

Only the proposition stated in the third paragraph of the syllabus seems to require elaboration. Section 1056 of the *86Penal Code (1910) is as follows: “The judges of the superior, city, and county courts shall, when the counsel for either party requests it before argument begins, write out their charges and read them to the jury, and it shall be error to give any other or additional charge than that so written and read.” In the present case the judge of the city court was duly requested to put his charge in writing, and did so. Before beginning to read from his charge, he addressed the jury,…