State v. Eakins

BRANCH, Justice.

By his first assignment of error defendant contends that the trial judge erred in charging that the jury should carefully consider and scrutinize the testimony of defendant and those closely related to him. The portion of the charge questioned by this assignment of error is as follows:

When you come to consider the evidence and the weight you will give to the testimony of the different witnesses, the Court instructs you that it is your duty to carefully consider and scrutinize the testimony of a defendant when he testifies in his own behalf and also the testimony of those who…