NICHOLS, Justice.
1. A charge dealing with unsworn statements in criminal cases as an abstract principle of law, to wit: "In all criminal trials, Prisoners have a right to make to the court and jury such statement in the case as he may deem proper in his defense, and such statement 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," (emphasis supplied) followed by a detailed...
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