People v. Woppner

The defendant was convicted of the crime of murder. The main error relied on by him to reverse the judgment is, that the Court, without the consent of the defendant, gave to the jury an oral charge after they had returned into Court for further information in respect to the law.

This charge is not found in any bill of exceptions or statements of the Judge below, but it is agreed by stipulation, that the charge was so given, reserving, however, the point whether, as no statement or bill of exceptions was presented to the Judge within ten days, this Court can notice the point.

We think that the…