Coleman v. State

Marshall, Chief Justice.

Appellant, Simon Coleman, Jr., was convicted by a jury for the murder of Janie Pearl Crumbley and sentenced to death. We reverse.

1. Coleman argues that the trial court erred by refusing to give the appellant’s written request to charge voluntary manslaughter.

“A person commits the offense of voluntary manslaughter when he causes the death of another human being under circumstances which would otherwise be murder and if he acts solely as the result of a sudden, violent, and irresistible passion resulting from serious provocation sufficient to excite such passion in a…