Grant v. State

Bell, Presiding Judge.

1. (a) The defendant, indicted for murder, was convicted by a jury of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to ten years. He appeals from the conviction. The defendant contends that the court erred in charging the jury on the law of justifiable homicide while engaged in mutual combat as there was no evidence of mutual combat. Mutual combat usually arises when the parties are armed with deadly weapons and mutually agree or intend to fight with them. Mutual combat does not mean a mere fist fight or scuffle. Joyner v. State, 208 Ga. 435, 439 (67 SE2d 221); Langford v. State,…