Green v. State

The defendant was indicted for murder, and was convicted of voluntary manslaughter. By what is apparently the strong preponderance of the evidence, both for the State and for the accused, the homicide, if committed by the defendant at all, was justifiable, and yet, by straining the testimony of one -of the dead man’s brothers, who testified for the State, it was legally possible for the jury to have rendered the verdict of manslaughter, on the theory that the defendant and the deceased were, at the time of. the killing, possessed of a mutual intention to fight with deadly weapons. The…