State v. Williams

On defendant’s own statement, be voluntarily entered into an affray with the deceased, in the course of which deceased was fatally wounded. No element of self-defense is made to appear. Therefore, on his own statement, defendant is at least guilty of manslaughter. He contends, however, that he should not have been convicted of murder in the second degree and that the jury was led to render that verdict by the failure of the trial judge to give due emphasis to and clearly charge the jury on the law arising on his evidence tending to show that the homicide was not an intentional killing, but…