Dawson v. State

1. Upon a review of the entire charge of the court it is plain that the language used in the excerpt from the charge, to which exceptions are taken in the first ground of the amendment to the motion for a new trial, could not have impressed the jury with the idea that the court was presenting a contention of the defendant. It was merely in explanation of the court’s subsequent instructions as to the defendant’s defense of justification, and as introductory thereto, that the court stated to the jury that “on a trial for an assault or assault and battery, the defense may give in evidence any…