Dicks v. State

The plaintiff in error, indicted for murder in the first degree and convicted of manslaughter, seeks reversal here on writ of error.

The first assignment of error is based upon the ruling or the court sustaining the State's objection to this question propounded to the jurors when being examined on their voir dire: “If, in this case, the defendant claims that the homicide was committed by him in self defense, then a material fact for you to determine from the evidence adduced at this trial would be who was-the aggressor in the fatal difficulty. Then after you have heard all the *719evidence in this…