Croft v. State

The only exception reserved on the trial below goes to the refusal of the court to give the following charge requested by defendant:' “A reasonable doubt of defendant’s guilt is not the same as a probability of his innocence. A reasonable doubt of defendant’s guilt may exist when the evidence fails to convince the jury that there is a probability of defendant’s innocence.” There can be no doubt that the abstract proposition involved in this request is a sound one. Under the ruling in the case of Williams v. State, 52 Ala. 411, however, this charge would be condemned as being confusing, in…