North v. State

The defendant earnestly contends that the evidence does not sustain the verdict of voluntary manslaughter; that under the evidence the defendant was either guilty of murder or of no offense at all; and that the court erred in submitting the question of voluntary manslaughter to the jury. Under the record of this ease, we can not agree with able counsel. If the question of voluntary manslaughter under the evidence and the defendant’s statement in this case was closer and more doubtful than appears from the record, still it would have been the duty of the trial judge to submit the principle of…