Edmunds v. State

The defendant was indicted, tried, and convicted for the offense of violating the prohibition laws of the state. Numerous exceptions were reserved, pending the trial, to the ruling of the court upon the evidence, and to several portions of the court’s oral charge, and also to the giving and refusal of several special charges requested in writing. An exception was duly reserved to the oral charge of the court as follows:

“If you believe beyond a reasonable doubt the evidence as it has been offered, the court holds, would render the defendant guilty of that number of violations of the…