Doyle v. State

Without material deviation every code of criminal procedure enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas has mandated, as Article 36.14, V.A.C.C.P. does now, that the judge of a trial court of record “shall . .. deliver to the jury ... a written charge distinctly setting forth the law applicable to the case.”1 When the Supreme Court decided Bishop v. The State, 43 Tex. 390 (1875), cited by, and selective excerpts from it in Mace v. State, 9 Tex.App. 110 (Ct.App.1880), reproduced by, the dissenting opinion in the case at bar, the contemporaneous code similarly imposed that duty on the…