State v. Bunning

WEBB, Justice.

The defendant’s first assignment of error deals with the charge. The court charged the jury on reasonable doubt as follows:

Now, a reasonable doubt is not a vain, imaginary or fanciful doubt, but it’s a sane and rational doubt. It’s a doubt based on common sense. When it’s said that you, the jury, must be satisfied of the defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, it is meant that you must be fully satisfied or completely satisfied or satisfied to a moral certainty of the truth of the charge. If, after considering, comparing and weighing the evidence or lack of evidence, the…