Clifton v. State

Mitchell, J.:

Daniel Clifton, Jr., plaintiff in error, was tried and convicted upon an indictment charging him with breaking and entering a building in the night time with intent to commit a felony, on the 1st day of May, 1889. The defendant moved for new trial, the motion was overruled, and the case is brought here upon writ of error.

No assignment of errors has been filed, but counsel for plaintiff in error contend that the trial judge in his charge did not give the law of the case, and that he erred in giving certain charges, and in refusing to give others requested by plaintiff in error,…