Hood v. State

There are three assignments of error: First, that the court erred in refusing to direct a verdict of acquittal. We have examined the evidence, and find it ample to avoid a peremptory charge. Second, that the court erred in granting the state’s third instruction. Whatever inaccuracy or obscurity there may be in that instruction was well cured by the elaborate and clearly drawn instructions granted at the request of the defendant. Third, that the court erred in refusing the following instruction requested by the defendant: “The court instructs the jury for the defendant that the reputation for…