TOWNSEND, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) 1. Special ground 4 assigns error on the failure of the court to charge, as to the defendant's unsworn statement, that the jury might believe it in part and disbelieve it in part. Code § 38-415 provides that the statement "shall not be under oath, and shall have such force only as the jury may think right to give it. They may believe it in preference to the sworn testimony in the case." The court charged this...
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