Shipp v. State

In this case there was a conviction of the plaintiff in error of the crime of murder in the first degree for the killing of one Bedell; the sentence being one for his execution. He has appealed and assigned as error that the trial judge charged the jury as follows, notwithstanding he stood at the time on a plea of not guilty:

‘ ‘ The defendant makes no denial of this occurrence, but states on the stand that he did commit this murder, but insists that he was raised up around Bedell’s place, that he never had any education, and that he was raised up under Bedell’s, tutelage to some extent., And…