Buster v. State

The court was not required, by the facts of this ease, to instruct the jury- on the law applicable to homicide below the grade of murder. The charge given by the court, as it seems to us upon a general consideration of it, presented the distinction between murder in the first and murder in the second degree correctly, and with such reasonable clearness and applicability to the evidence as the necessities of the case required. But as it is unnecessary to do so, we do not propose giving the charge such full and thorough examination as would enable us to say whether it is critically and…