Booker v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Indictment for murder — conviction of manslaughter; from Mc-Duffie superior court — Judge Conyers presiding. December 19, 1914.
1Opinion of the CourtWade, J.
The first and second groilnds of the amendment to the motion for a new trial complain that the court erred in giving-in charge to the jury section 65 of the Penal Code, relative to voluntary manslaughter (except the part relating to provocation bywords, threats, menaces, etc.,, which was omitted), and in instructing them what the form of their verdict should be if they found the defendant guilty of manslaughter; the alleged error being that the evidence as a whole did not warrant any reference whatever to the law of voluntary manslaughter.
The killing occurred on Sunday at a negro camp-ground,…
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