State v. Jeffries

PHILLIPS, Judge.

None of the defendant’s many assignments of error are meritorious, in our opinion, and only one requires more than passing comment. His earnest contention that the case against him should have been dismissed as a matter of law is based on only a partial view of the evidence, a goodly portion of which tends to show that defendant shot an unarmed man, then posing no threat to his life or well-being, through the head with a pistol. And each of his several exceptions to the judge’s charge is based on only a small segment thereof, whereas, read as a whole, in context, as *183our…