Waddell v. State

1. Under tlie facts of the case this court cannot hold as a matter of law that the overruling of the defendant’s motion for a continuance constituted an abuse of the trial judge’s discretion.

2. The court’s charge that “ parents have a -right to whip their children provided they do not beat them unmercifully, they are not allowed to beat them unmercifully,” was not error for any reason assigned.

3. Under repeated rulings of the Supreme Court and of this court, an excerpt from the charge of the court which is a mere fragment of a sentence is too incomplete to be considered. Under this ruling…