BANKE, Chief Judge.
Blair appeals his conviction of mutiny in a penal institution, enumerating as error the trial court's failure to charge the jury on the presumption of innocence. Held:
"`The failure of a trial judge in a criminal case to charge the jury to the effect that the defendant enters upon his trial with a presumption of innocence in his favor, and that this presumption remains with him, in the nature of evidence, until rebutted by proof...
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