Adams v. State

The bill of exceptions sued out in this case presents an assignment of error upon the overruling of a motion for a new trial made by Newt Adams, who was tried and convicted upon an indictment charging him with the offense of assault with intent to murder. The evidence, as counsel for the accused very properly concedes, was sufficient to warrant the verdict of guilty; and it should be upheld, unless, for some reason assigned in the special grounds of the motion, it is made to appear that the accused was denied a fair and impartial trial.

1. Complaint is made of the following charge to the jury,…