Abram v. State

HURT, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of manslaughter, and given two years in the penitentiary, and prosecutes this appeal. The court submitted to the jury the following charge: “No one who voluntarily brings on an affray, in which he intends to wreak his malice, can avail himself of the plea of self-defense, even though his own life is endangered in the affray. If the slayer provoked the contest which resulted in the killing of the deceased, he is guilty of manslaughter, although he may have done the act of killing in order to save his own life.” To the giving of this charge the…