Messer v. State

This is a-writ-of-error from a judgment.of conviction of felony in a Criminal Court of Record whereon complaint is made by the convicted offenders that the presiding judge erroneously gave to the trial jury the following charge:

“The Court charges you that it is upon the testimony and the testimony alone that you are to make up your ver diet; you are not to be concerned with the argument of counsel or anything outside of the testimony brought to you from the witness stand.”

■ Section 11 of the State’s Bill of Rights makes it a constitutional privilege of an accused person to be “heard” by…