Veasey v. State

Charge 2 refused to defendant is as follows:

“The court charges the jury, if the jury, upon considering all the evidence, have a reasonable doubt about the defendant’s guilt, arising out of any part of the evidence, they should find him not guüty.”

This charge was not covered by the oral charge, nor by the given charges. It stated a correct proposition of law, and should have been given. For its refusal there is no escape from reversing the judgment of conviction appealed from. This identical charge has been approved many times by the Supreme Court, and by this court. See Townsend v. State, 18…