Parsons v. State

1. For no reason assigned did the court err in charging the jury: “If there are»material conflicts in the evidence, you ought to endeavor to reconcile all of such conflicts, if you can do so, so as to make each and every witness speak the truth, and without imputing perjury to anybody, the law presuming they are all honest and tell the truth, until the contrary is made to appear by proof.”

2. When the court concluded the charge to the jury the indictment was handed to them. Attached to it was an affidavit made before the presiding judge by Richard Caldwell, a witness for the State, upon which…