Crawford v. State

Sam Crawford was indicted for the offense of murder, and upon the trial of the case the jury returned a verdict of guilty, with a recommendation. The defendant made a motion for a new trial, which, after a hearing, the court overruled, and the defendant excepted.

1. In one ground of the motion the movant contends that he is entitled to a new trial because the court failed to give, as a part of his instructions to the jury, a charge upon the subject of voluntary manslaughter; movant insisting that the evidence demanded a charge upon this grade of homicide. There was no error in refusing to…