Crisp v. State

A majority of the court are of the opinion that the portion of the oral charge excepted to by the defendant, and upon which this cause was reversed by the Court of Appeals, was not reversible error. True, the portion excepted to omitted to state that the conduct of defendant must have been the proximate cause of the death of the deceased — a point as to which there seems to have been no serious controversy— but, looking to the entire oral charge and the defendant’s given charges, which are a part of the record, we think there could have been no possible misunderstanding on the part of the…