Gaddis v. State

Defendant appeals from denial of an extraordinary motion for new trial in which he enumerated the following errors: (1) that the trial court erred in unlawfully excluding blacks and women from the grand and traverse jury panels; (2) that the trial court erred in charging that "A person of sound mind and discretion is presumed to intend the natural and probable consequences of his acts”; and (3) that the trial court erred in failing to charge the jury that they are to consider mitigating, as well as aggravating, circumstances in determining whether to impose a death sentence and are not bound…