Plummer v. State

1. The defendant’s conviction not depending wholly upon circumstantial evidence, the court did not err, in the absence of an appropriate written request, in failing to instruct the jury upon the law of circumstantial evidence.

2. There is no merit in those special grounds -of the motion for a new trial that assigned error because the judge, after the verdict had been returned and before passing sentence on the defendait, stated from the bench that he thought the verdict was “ eminently correct.” Nor did such expression disqualify the judge from passing upon the defendant’s motion for a new…