Barber v. State

1. Where in a criminal trial there was evidence tending to prove the good character of the accused, and the judge omitted to charge the jury with respect to the law bearing on this subject before they had retired to consider of their verdict, it was neither erroneous nor prejudicial to the accused to recall them and supply the omission in the original instructions.

2. The charge which the court gave on the law relating to good character being in substance correct, the exception to the same, presenting the objection that it “ was general and not specific as to the law of good character, and did…