Owens v. United States

Although a portion of the charge to the jury, when taken by itself, is erroneous, it is doubtful whether the error is such as to justify a reversal of the judgment, when the instruction is considered in connection with other portions of the charge, in which the court twice properly instructed the jury upon the law applicable to the proposition involved in the objectionable paragraph. But I think that we are precluded from considering the alleged error, for the reason that no exception was taken to the charge at the time of the trial. The bill of exceptions shows that after the cqurt had…