Walker v. State

The accused was tried under an indictment charging him with murder, and was .found guilty with a recommendation to the mercy of the court. He excepts to the overruling of his motion for a new trial. Besides the general complaint that the verdict was contrary to law and the evidence, the motion contained only one ground, in which error is assigned on the following charge of the court: “ The defendant on trial is allowed to make a statement in his own behalf. The statement is a voluntary statement not made under oath, and made by the defendant in his own behalf; but the statement is allowed to…