Pruitt v. State

The defendant appellant was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree.. There is no recital in the bill of exceptions that it contains all of the evidence. The only questions presented for review are the refusal of charges 1, 2, and 3.

Refused charge 1 reads, as follows;

**If the minds of the jury, or a single juror, after considering the evidence, be in a state of uncertainty and confusion as to whether or not the defendant is guilty, then she should not be convicted of any offense.”

This charge was bad, in that it was calculated to impress the mind of a juror with the idea “that his…