State v. Hargett

HEDRICK, Judge.

The defendant first contends that the trial court expressed an opinion in its charge to the jury. He asserts that “the Court’s repeated reference to the alleged victim’s having been shot in the back two times implied to the jury that the fact that the alleged victim had been assaulted by being shot twice in the back was not in controversy.” The instructions embraced within the exceptions upon which this assignment of error is based cover approximately four pages in the record. The bill of indictment charged that the defendant feloniously assaulted Mr. .Chavis with intent to…