Elders v. State

The plaintiff in error was tried for murder and convicted of voluntary manslaughter. The only ground of the motion for a new trial which is argued in the brief of counsel for the plaintiff in error is that one which alleges that the court erred in charging the jury on voluntary manslaughter. In Cain v. State, 7 Ga. App. 24, this court said: “It is well settled by repeated rulings of the Supreme Court and this court that on a trial for murder, if there is anything deducible from the evidence or the defendant’s statement that would tend to show manslaughter, voluntary or involuntary, it is the…