Cravey v. State

Headnote 1 needs no elaboration.

The defendant assigns as error the failure of the trial court to charge “that it is incumbent upon the State to prove all of the essential allegations in the bill of indictment, and the court failed to charge the jury that all of the allegations in the indictment were material, and that it was the State’s burden to prove the material allegations beyond a reasonable doubt.” There is no merit in this .contention. The trial judge read the indictment to the jury, and stated that the defendant pleaded not guilty to the charge as made in the indictment, and that this…