Carroll v. State

The defendant was tried for an assault with intent to murder, and was convicted of unlawfully shooting at another. His motion for new trial was overruled.

The evidence, while conflicting, amply authorized the verdict. The only special ground of the motion for a new trial argued or insisted on in the brief of counsel for the plaintiff in error is as follows: “Because the court erred in charging the jury as follows: ‘I charge you that the relationship of husband and wife gives each the right to mutually protect the other; in other words, the Husband would have just the same right to protect his…