People v. Woody

By the Court:

The defendant having been convicted of .murder in the first degree, has brought this appeal, and assigns as one of the grounds of error that the Court below misdirected the jury to Ms prejudice, on a material point. In the charge to the jury, after stating that the question to be decided was, whether the defendant at the time and place mentioned in the indictment maliciously and with premeditation killed *290the person alleged to have been murdered, the Court proceeded to charge the jury as follows:

“This question maybe resolved into three: First—Was Findley killed at the time and…