Powell v. State

Ingram, Justice.

Appellant was convicted of murder and sentenced in the Superior Court of Bryan County to serve a life imprisonment term for this offense. This appeal enumerates three alleged errors: (1) the trial judge failed to charge the jury on the law of misfortune or accident, which was placed in issue under the appellant’s unsworn statement at the trial; (2) the trial judge’s charge on reasonable doubt and the burden of the state were argumentative, weighted in favor of a verdict against (appellant), confusing and misleading; and (3) the evidence is legally insufficient to support the…