Brown v. State

The Chief-Justice

delivered the opinion of the court.

Brown was convicted of manslaughter in the third degree under an indictment charging murder.

The .indictmént charged that the accused, with a premeditated design to effect the death of one Willis Taylor, with a knife inflicted wounds upon the body of- Taylor, (upon his abdomen and upon his back,) of which wounds Taylor died on the same day.

The Judge charged the jury (par. 2) that “ a sane man is conclusively presumed to contemplate the natural consequences of his own act, and, therefore, the intent to murder with malice aforethought is…