Parsons v. State

— The prisoner was indicted for the murder of one Mayo. On the trial of the case below, the evidence was conflicting as to whether the deceased came to his death from a wound inflicted by the defendant, or from the improper treatment which was resorted to by the attending physicians, the wound not being considered a mortal one. It was what is termed a “ punctured wound,” and the improper treatment which was relied on was, the bringing of its edges together, and sewing it with stitches. The court, upon this evidence, was requested by the counsel for the prisoner to charge, “that if the wound…