White

The defendant in this case was informed against for the crime of murder. Upon his trial he was found guilty of murder in the first degree, and- his punishment was fixed by the jury at imprisonment in the state prison for life. Judgment was rendered and entered accordingly, from which and an order denying a new trial defendant has appealed.

No claim is made that the verdict and judgment are not supported by the evidence. The evidence, on the contrary, shows the defendant to have been justly convicted, and therefore the verdict and judgment must stand unless it shall affirmatively appear from the record before us that the defendant was. substantially damaged in his defense by some error or irregularity committed upon the trial in the lower court.

The only points relied upon for a reversal involve the correctness of isolated portions of the trial court’s charge to the jury, and the failure of the trial judge and the defendant to accompany the jury upon an inspection of the premises on which it was claimed the homicide was committed.

The attack made upon certain of the instructions of the trial court upon the law of self-defense is hypercritical, but even if that were not so, the…