Balark v. State

(After stating the foregoing facts.) Special grounds 6-16 inclusive of the amended motions for new trials deal with the failure of the trial court to give certain charges to the jury as presented by timely written request, and ground 17 assigns error on the failure to give the whole in charge as requested on the ground that the court followed a pattern of ignoring all requests adjusted to the evidence and chose to charge only abstract principles of law, to the confusion of the jury. Special ground 6 complains of the refusal to give the following request in charge: “If you shall find that the…