Craft v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

This conviction was for murder in the second degree, the punishment being assessed at fourteen years in the penitentiary.

The court gave a charge with reference to manslaughter in which he informed the jury that it is not enough that the mind is merely agitated by the passion arising from some other provocation, nor the provocation given by some person other than the party killed. Exception was reserved to this portion of the charge especially that which refers to the provocation given by some other person, than the deceased. Applying the law to the case, the court…