Supreme Court of Alabama January 15, 1870 (DePhue v. State)

PETERS, J.

It is said, that it is the duty of the judge who presides, to confine the evidence to the points in issue, *39that the attention of the jury may not be distracted, nor the public time needlessly wasted. — >1 Phillips Ev. p. 782, and notes; 4th Amer. Ed. Cow. & Hill. Here the issue was the fact of the manslaughter, of which the defendant below was accused.