Mathis v. State

1. Complaint is made of the following excerpt from the charge of the court: “The law presumes him [the defendant] to be -innocent until the contrary appears by proof which satisfies your minds beyond reasonable doubt as to his guilt; a reasonable doubt being such a doubt as an honest juror would have in a search after the truth.” In the absence of a timely and appropriate written request for fuller instructions, the foregoing charge Sufficiently informed the jury that the burden was on the State to prove the defendant guilty “beyond a reasonable doubt,” and that the defendant “entered upon…