Sheffield v. State

1. Where the trial judge instructed the jury that if they din not believe the defendant’s guilt had been established beyond all reasonable doubt, it would be their duty to give him the benefit of that doubt and acquit him, and further that they must be satisfied of his guilt beyond all reasonable doubt, before they would be authorized to convict, it was not error to fail to define the meaning of the expression “reasonable doubt.” “It is very seldom that an amplified definition of ‘reasonable doubt’ elucidates the meaning of these simple words. In the absence of a request that fuller…