State v. Adams

Lore, C. J.,

charging the jury:

*179Gentlemen of the jury:—James Adams and Theodore Adams, the defendants, are indicted for murder of the first degree.

The State charges that on the nineteenth day of June of the present year, they so cut and wounded one James Redden with a knife that he died the following day.

"Under this indictment you may find one or both of the defendants guilty of murder of the first degree, or of murder of the second degree, or of manslaughter, or you may find them or either of them not guilty.

It is therefore necessary that you should be instructed as to these three grades of…