Strickland v. State

1. The only question raised by the motion for new trial (except the general grounds) is that “the court erred in failing to charge the jury on the law of impeachment, after the same had been requested by the defendant, though not in writing.”' Nothing is better settled than that it is not error for the court, in the absence of a request to instruct the jury upon the law in reference to the impeachment of witnesses, to omit all reference to the subject. And it has been held more than once by this court that requests to charge, upon the refusal of which error may be predicated, are confined to…