Harris v. State

The plaintiff in error, Charlie Harris, was indicted in Floyd superior court for the offense of murder. He was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. He made a motion for a new trial, upon the general grounds, and thereafter filed an amendment to this motion, alleging as further ground for a new trial that the court failed to charge the law of voluntary manslaughter as based upon the theory of mutual combat or mutual intention to fight; and also that the judge erred in not charging the jury that they could not consider a statement of the deceased, introduced in evidence by the State, as a…