Jones v. State

1. Ground 1 complains of error because the court, during the charge covering the law as applied to impeachment of witnesses, used the phrase “in a word.” The court fully charged the law applicable to the case regarding the method of impeaching witnesses. He then used the phrase quoted, in the following connection: “In a word, it is the exclusive province of the jury under all the attendant circumstances and conditions to determine whether a witness has been successfully impeached by any of the legal methods.” The words were merely an introductory or arresting phrase in the sense in which they…