Greenwood v. State

The defendant was indicted and convicted of an assault upon one James Hampton with intent to *590kill and murder. The charge of the court upon the ¡trial of the case was, so far as it went, a correct enunciation of the law applicable to the facts of the case. It .cannot be expected that a court, in every criminal case, will or should give in charge to the jury every principle of law which might be applied to the facts of the particular case, and the omission to give a particular charge .is not such an error as would require a reversal of the judgment, unless the court, upon being asked by a party…