382 So. 2d 1186 - White v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““There, the defendant requested the court to charge the jury that ‘no inference or conclusion should be drawn by the jury from the fact that the defendant was not sworn and put on the stand as a witness in his own behalf, nor should this fact have any weight with the jury in reaching a verdict.’ “The Supreme Court in Thomas reversed, holding: “1) The charge in substance states the law applicable to the case; “2) It was a fact that the defendant failed to make the request to testify in the case and the charge should not be condemned as being abstract; “3) The charge cannot be condemned as being argumentative because it contained nothing more than the statement of an admitted fact and the law applicable under the statute [presently codified in § 12-21-220, Code of Alabama 1975].””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Popwell v. State