Lamar v. State

Citations

• 64 Miss. 428

Syllabus

<p>Cbiminal Pbaotice. Instruction. Repetition allowable. Rule as to abstract and concrete. ^</p> <p>A defendant in a criminal case is entitled to an instruction asked, embodying a principle of law applied to bis theory of the facts deducible from the whole evidence, even though such principle was already before stated in the abstract by another instruction for the accused, if there be' in the evidence such basis for doubt .as to entitle the accused to have his theory considered. Aid-rige v. The State, 59 Miss, 250, cited. It is better practice to charge the law as applied to the respective theories contended for than to announce principles in the abstract.</p>