Pritchett v. State

CATES, Judge.

Pritchett is the third man to appeal to this court from a conviction of mayhem for the castration of Judge Aaron. Mabry v. State, ante, p. 129, 110 So.2d 250, and McCullough v. State, ante, p. 309, 113 So.2d 905.

We refer to those opinions for descriptions of the crime and the actions of the participants before and afterwards.

*500As to the first claimed error; viz., the judge’s charging the jury that castration was maiming within our statute,1 we think castration is a kind of mayhem. Blackstone (iv. Com. 205) says:

“ * * * For mayhem is properly defined to be, as we may remember, the…