Joe Gillyard was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death, and seeks relief here from this judgment and sentence. His
The only exception taken to any of the portions of the general charge upon which this assignment is based is in the motion for a new trial, under the provisions of Section 1500 of the General Statutes of 1906. Assuming that the portions of the general charge so excepted to are sufficiently identified by reference to the numbered paragraphs thereof and that this is a sufficient compliance with the statute, no point being made thereon, it will be observed that such numbered portions are excepted to en masse. It is settled law here that where two distinct propositions of law in a charge are excepted to as a whole, the exception must fail, if either one of such propositions is correct. Bass v. State,
The fifth assignment is to the effect that the court in its general charge failed to define all the degrees of homicide, and the sixth assignment questions the failure of the court “to give in charge to the jury the law of excus
This disposes of all the assignments, except the first and second^ which question the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict. A careful reading of the evidence convinces us that the jurors, acting as reasonable men, not only could but should have found the verdict which they did. See Chancey v. State,
Judgment affirmed.
