Wimberly v. State

From our view of the evidence in behalf of the State, we are extremely reluctant to set aside the verdict rendered in this case. The jury evidently credited the State’s witnesses, and their testimony presents a plain case of attempted assassination. The charge of the trial judge to the jury is, in most respects, a model one. Indeed, in some features, the instructions of the court were more favorable to the 'accused than he was entitled to have. And still, since the verdict was not demanded, and these instructions were in conflict with other instructions, which are legally incorrect, and of…