Davis v. State

1. As to the general grounds, the evidence supports the verdict.

2. Where one is on trial for murder and the evidence involves mutual combat, and the verdict is for voluntary manslaughter, such a verdict is an acquittal of murder, and the failure to charge the principle of mutual combat under the Code, § 26-1014, is not cause for reversal. Had the verdict been for murder, the failure so to charge would be reversible error.

3. In a criminal case, where the conviction is based on evidence other than the confession of the defendant alone, it is not error, in the absence of a timely written…