Birmingham Trust & Savings Co. v. Acacia Mut. Life Ass'n

The trial court did not commit reversible error in giving the defendant’s requested charge set out in the fourth assignment of error and which we number 4 on the margin of the record. It asserts a truism and the criticism against same is highly technical, though perhaps justified,' in a sense, by some of the courts and text-writers. As we understand, the charge means this and nothing more, that, as the law presumes that the intestate came to his death from natural causes, it was incumbent upon the defendant to show that he took his own life, and, when the defendant introduced the certificate…