McRae v. State

1. One ground of the motion for a new trial complains that the court refused to submit to the jury a charge duly requested in writing, to wit: “that the court charge the jury, in addition to the law as • embodied in section 33 of the Code, and the law of the case generally as applied in this case, that the jury must find that the defendant knew the distinction between right and wrong, and that the burden of proof to show that the defendant knew the distinction between right and wrong rests upon the State, and that the jury must believe that the defendant was capable of committing crime and…