Hines v. Snell

1. Where a legal and pertinent request for a charge has been properly made, it is the duty of the judge to give it in such manner that the jury will distinctly understand that it has the sanction and approval of the court as a correct statement of the legal *93proposition (Ga. R. Co. v. Flowers, 108 Ga. 795, 33 S. E. 874; Blandon v. State, 6 Ga. App. 782 (3), 65 S. E. 842); and it would be improper for the judge to weaken the effect of such a requested instruction by any act or words that might ereate an impression upon their minds that the charge is given, not as his own interpretation-of the…