Beckworth v. State

Taking that view of the evidence most favorable to upholding the verdict, for every presumption and every inference is in its favor (Vandeviere v. State, 58 Ga. App. 18, 197 S. E. 338), the evidence authorized a finding that the accused and the deceased entertained a mutual intent to fight, and did engage in a mutual combat in pursuance of this intention, in which the accused and the deceased each used a knife, a deadly weapon, and that the deceased ivas mortally wounded by a knife held by the accused. The jury were thus authorized to render the verdict of voluntary manslaughter. Stowe v.…