Brown v. State

The complaint on which the defendant was tried charged the defendant in three different counts with violations of the prohibition laws. It affirmatively appears from the recitals in the record that the court, at the oral request of the state’s counsel, orally gave the jury the general affirmative charge in behalf of the state on each count of the complaint. To this action of the court an exception was duly reserved by the defendant.(1) The court is not permitted, under the statute of this state, to charge upon the effect of the evidence, unless required to do so by one of the parties (Code…