Holland v. State

Complaint is made of failure to charge, without written request, the law of voluntary manslaughter as related *202to mutual combat between the defendant and the deceased. One phase of the evidence tended to show the following state of facts. The defendant was proprietor of a farm located about five miles east of the town of Cochran, upon which he resided. The deceased lived in that town west of the business section, on a street that was a projection of the road from defendant’s home. The homicide occurred on the street at a point where an alley intersected the street. The alley separated Purser’s…