State v. McLean

CAMPBELL, Judge.

Several of the defendants’ assignments of error challenge the propriety of statements made by the trial judge while charging the jury.

The trial judge stated the contentions of the State in the following manner:

“The State says and contends that you should find each defendant guilty as charged; State says and contends that in this case the victim of this assault was a young man who had been sentenced to prison for a law violation and that his punishment for this offense was a term in confinement, but that the court’s punishment certainly was never intended to include a gang…