White v. State

1. In several of the grounds of the amendment to the motion for a new trial, general assignments of error were made on extracts from the charge given the jury. Under many rulings of this court, such assignments will be considered for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not an instruction thus complained of states a correct abstract principle of law; if it does, then the investigation in this court must end, for, in the absence of a specific assignment of error, this court will not inquire whether the instruction is or is not adjusted to the issues and facts of the ease.

(а) If an…