Swain v. State

1. Considered in connection with all of the testimony of .the sheriff, who gave evidence of a confession made by the accused to him, it was not error to admit the confession.

2. The charge complained of in the second amended ground of the motion for new trial was not subject to the .criticism that it was not authorized by the evidence, or that it excluded from the consideration of the jury the doctrine of self-defense, or that of reasonable fears.

3. The charge of the court excepted to in the “third and fourth amended grounds of the motion for new trial, relative to the right of a father to…