Brown v. State

The defendant was indicted, tried, and convicted of the offense of murder, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. His motion for a new trial was overruled, and he excepted.

1. The court did not err in refusing a request to charge the jury the law of voluntary manslaughter. Tlie request was incomplete in that it omitted some of the essential ingredients of that offense, and did not present the abstract law correctly. Moreover, the request was in the nature of an argument, and was calculated to mislead the jury-

*7732. Voluntary manslaughter was not involved in the case. The sole basis for the…