Fuller v. State

Deen, Presiding Judge.

1. The defendant was tried on an indictment charging him with the murder of his wife by shooting her with a rifle, and was convicted of voluntary manslaughter. Error is enumerated on the failure to instruct the jury on the law of either grade of involuntary manslaughter. Since neither side requested such a charge, the failure to give it was not error. State v. Stonaker, 236 Ga. 1 (222 SE2d 354).

2. The defendant, covered with blood, went to a neighbor’s house to report his wife’s death shortly after 10:30 in the evening and police arrived between 10:30 and 11. Around 1…