Bowen v. State

Gardner, Presiding Judge.

1. Special ground 1 assigns error because it is alleged that the court failed to instruct the jury that the burden of proof was on the. State to prove to the jury *490beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant Bowen was guilty of the offense charged against him. The court charged the jury on this point as follows: “The defendant has entered a plea of not guilty and that forms the issue you are impaneled to try. The defendant enters upon the trial of this case with the presumption of innocence in his favor, and this presumption remains with him, until and unless the…