Thomas v. State

The plaintiff in error was indicted for murder in the first degree in the Circuit Court for Holmes County for the homicide of Chap Ford, and was convicted of murder in the second degree. From a judgment sentencing her to State prison for life she took a writ of error to the present term of this court.

The first error assigned is that “the court erred in refusing to give special charge No. 1, requested by the defendant, and in not indorsing it ‘given’ or ‘refused.’ ” The charge referred to was given by the court after striking therefrom two immaterial expressions which did not affect it, and it…