THOMAS, Justice.
The appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree in a trial on an indictment charging him with murder in the first degree.
In his appeal he raises two points, both growing out of an occurrence at the close of the testimony and the charge to the jury, and on the eve of the retirement of the jury to consider a verdict.
The appellant was alleged to have designedly slain a colored woman, and his defense was that a short time...
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