Court Opinion

ID: 5452829
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-08 19:32:23.28323+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:32:32.121709
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SAWYER, C. J.
The court does not appear to us to have erred in refusing to allow the challenge taken to the jurors Doyle and Hicks. There can be no doubt that the testimony of De Forrest and Huntington, as to the relations between the defendant and deceased previous to the homicide, was properly admitted. True, at that time, all the testimony connecting defendant with the homicide had not been introduced, but there was enough to render the evidence admissible. If there had not been sufficient at that stage of the proceedings, the evidence subsequently introduced was ample, and it could only be a question as to the order of proof. So long as it was finally admissible, the order in which it came in could, in this instance, at least, make no possible difference,
There is no force in the criticism, made under appellant’s fifth point, upon a passage in the charge of the court. The law in the whole charge, bearing on this point, was clearly presented to the jury, and it is scarcely possible that it could have been misunderstood. The entire law necessary to be stated could not be embraced in a single sentence, and the court did not attempt it.
*417The defendant has nothing of which he can justly complain in that portion of the charge referring to drunkenness. Besides, we cannot find that there was any exception taken to this or any other portion of the charge given by the court.
The tenth instruction asked by defendant is clearly not law, and there was no error in refusing it. We find nothing in the record, of which the defendant can justly complain.
The judgment is affirmed with directions to the district judge to appoint a day for carrying it into execution.
We concur: Rhodes, J.; Crockett, J.; Sanderson, J.; Sprague, J.