State v. Murray

BALEY, Judge.

Defendant has brought forward a number of assignments of error relating to the court’s charge. He contends that the court did not instruct the jury adequately on circumstantial evidence and did not define reasonable doubt. In addition, he argues, the court did not set forth his contentions in sufficient detail. However, defendant did not request an instruction defining reasonable doubt, and he did not ask for a more detailed charge on circumstantial evidence or a fuller statement of his contentions. “ ‘Where the charge fully instructs the jury on all substantive features of the…