Nichols v. State

1. Upon a trial lor murder, where there is adduced any evidence sufficient to raise a doubt, however slight, as to whether the case is murder or voluntary manslaughter, the court should instruct the jury upon the law of voluntary manslaughter as well as upon the law of murder. Jackson v. State, 76 Ga. 473; Elders v. State, 24 Ga. App. 279 (100 S. E. 781); May v. State, 24 Ga. App. 379 (11), 382 (100 S. E. 797). Under this ruling and the facts of the instant case, the court did not err in charging the law of voluntary manslaughter.

2. The various excerpts from the charge which are complained of…