State v. Dillard

Sanders, Judge:

This is a writ of error to a judgment of the criminal court of Mercer county, convicting the defendant, and sentencing him to the penitentiary for the term of ten, years, for the murder ot Bob Banner.

The prisoner, upon his trial, asked the court to give to the jury eleven instructions, four of which were given, but the court refused to give instructions 5 to 11, which ruling of the court, in refusing said instructions, is assigned as error. '.

While the refusal of instruction No. 3 is assigned as error in the petition, still counsel for the defendant, in his brief, does not…