Reeves v. State

(After stating the foregoing facts.-) Although the defendants were tried at separate terms of court and by separate juries, and although the records in each case are not identical, yet they are sufficiently similar to be considered together.

Special ground 1 of each amended motion for new trial is based upon the failure of the trial judge to submit in his charges to the juries the offense of assault and battery; it being contended that this offense was contained in the bill of indictment, and that the evidence would have authorized the jury, in each case, to return a verdict of guilty of…