Plymel v. State

1. On the trial of a person charged with murder, where the evidence shows that the defendant killed the deceased as alleged in the indictment by shooting him with a pistol, evidence that the defendant shot the deceased because “he was coming on to him with his knife,” in connection with other evidence that deceased approached to *678within striking distance when the shot was fired, was sufficient to authorize a charge upon the subject of voluntary manslaughter, on the basis of passion produced by an assault, as ruled in Williams v. State, 125 Ga. 302 (54 S. E. 108), and cit., and Brown v. State,…