Barnes v. State

Bkovxes, O. J.

1. The special ground of the motion for a new trial alleging that the charge of the court upon the law of voluntary manslaughter was error, in that it omitted certain specified ingredients of that offense, is without merit. The accused was indicted for murder and convicted of voluntary manslaughter. Counsel for the plaintiff in error, by expressly abandoning in his brief the general grounds of the motion for a new trial, admits that the verdict was authorized by the evidence. The special ground fails to show how the failure to charge all of the law of voluntary manslaughter was…