Veal v. State

1. Yeal was indicted for murder and convicted of voluntary manslaughter. The evidence of the State would have authorized a conviction of murder. The accused relied upon his statement to the jury, which, if they had fully believed it, might have authorized them to acquit him on the ground that the homicide was justifiable. The statement was disproved in part. Besides, it was within the province of the jury to believe a part and disbelieve the remainder. They were authorized to find that the defendant shot the deceased because of an assault which'the latter made upon him, and, therefore, that…