Mann v. State

The first insistence of error is that the court permitted the principal state’s witness to testify that:

“It was customary for him [witness] to assist an officer of the law of the county to apprehend a criminal.”

This is the duty of all good citizens, and the law presumes men will do their duty. The testimony strictly speaking was immaterial, but we do not think'it was of such a character to injuriously affect the defendant’s case.

Exception is taken to several excerpts from the court’s oral charge, wherein the trial judge stated several undisputed facts as disclosed by the evidence. Under…