Smithie v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called' the defendant, was indicted for the murder, on March 9, 1922, of L. T. Walker in Lafayette County and was convicted of the crime of manslaughter. He seeks to reverse the judgment because of errors alleged to have been committed by the trial court in overruling objections by him to the admission of certain evidence and in requiring the attorneys to make their arguments to the jury upon the merits before the court delivered its charge.

Section 2696 of the Revised General Statutes, relating to charges to juries on the law of the ease and direction of…