Shaw v. State

1. Several grounds of the motion for a new trial are based upon alleged errors in the instructions to the jury relative to “the doctrine of the fears of a reasonable man acting under the belief *270that a serious personal injury was about to be inflicted upon him which might amount to a felony.” When all the excerpts from the charge which are embraced in the several grounds of the motion are considered in connection with each other and in connection with the entire charge, it will be found that there is nothing in any of them that requires that the case be tried again. Indeed a portion of the…