Scott v. State

The trial in the court below seems to have been, in the main, free from error; and for that reason we shall not consider the exceptions which we do not deem to be meritorious. One error in the charge, however, under the' provisions of the Civil Code, §4334, leaves us no discretion, and demands a new trial. The plaintiff in error complains that the court erred in its charge to the jury by summing up and. stressing the circumstances insisted on by the State, tending to prove the guilt of the defendant, and the lack of sufficient provocation by the use of opprobrious words, without a…