State v. Ellison

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Watts.

The defendant was tried at the May term of Court of General Sessions for Anderson County, 1912, before Judge Prince, on an indictment which charged him with the murder of R. A. Hunt, and was convicted of manslaughter. A motion for a new trial was made and refused, and defendant was sentenced, and from this conviction and sentence he now appeals and assigns error on the part of trial Judge in four exceptions.

1 The first alleges it was error for the Judge to say: “ ‘Now Mr. Foreman and gentlemen of the jury: When you go into your room…