Guy v. State

The judge charged the jury in part as follows: “You may believe part of the statement of the defendant and part of the testimony, you being the sole and exclusive judges as to whom you will believe and as to what you will believe.” The plaintiff contends that, “when the court attempted to charge any of the law regarding the credibility of witnesses, he was under the duty to fully instruct the jury as to all the phases regarding the credibility of a witness.” The excerpt complained of, in so far as it related to witnesses, was, in effect, charging the Code section that the “credibility of a…