State v. Broome

At the completion of the judge’s charge, and after the jury had been instructed to retire in order to consider its verdict, counsel for defendant requested the court to define “reasonable doubt.” The failure of the judge to elaborate further upon that term constitutes defendant’s only assignment of error supported by an exception in the record.

The judge submitted the case to the jury without stating the contentions of either the State or defendant. A careful examination of the charge discloses that he fairly and impartially recapitulated all the evidence, and that he correctly applied the law…