Bridges v. State

CHARLES CARROLL, Chief Judge.

The defendant below appeals from conviction under two informations. The grounds urged for reversal are that error was committed by the trial judge by commenting on the failure of the defendant to testify in his own behalf, and that the verdicts were incorrect and did not express the findings of the jury. We have considered those contentions in the light of the record and briefs and find them, to be without merit.

The record discloses that in charging the jury, after dealing with the matter of credibility of witnesses, the trial judge-said: “Now, the defendant has…