Guice v. State

LEIGH M. CLARK, Retired Circuit Judge.

The only issue expressly presented by appellant is whether the trial court committed reversible error in failing to state to the jury, in reading defendant’s given written charges, that they were “correct statements of the law to be taken by you in connection with what has already been said to you,” as provided by Code of Alabama 1975, § 12-16-13. Appellant was convicted of robbery and sentenced to imprisonment for fifty years.

In reading the charges to the jury, the court did not identify them as charges given by the court “at the request of the .…