State v. . Burnette

One of the defendant’s exceptions is directed to the failure of the court below to charge the jury as to its right to return a verdict of guilty of a less degree of the crime charged in the bill of indictment. In this connection the court charged the jury: “If you are satisfied from the evidence and beyond a reasonable doubt as to the guilt of the defendant, your verdict will be ‘guilty.’ If you have a reasonable doubt as to his guilt, from all the evidence, you will return a verdict of ‘not guilty.’ ”... And again, “If you are satisfied, and beyond a reasonable doubt, of his guilt, whether…