Lester v. State

HARWOOD, Presiding Judge.

Under an indictment charging murder in the first degree this appellant was found guilty of murder in the second degree by a jury, and judgment was entered pursuant to the verdict.

In the trial below the evidence presented by the. defense was directed toward establishing justification by reason of self-defense.

Since it is our conclusion that this judgment must be reversed because of errors infecting the lower court’s instructions to the jury, we see no need of delineating the evidence.

During his oral charge the court instructed the jury in part as follows :

“Well, now,…