Bradshaw v. State

1. The defendant was convicted of murder, and excepted to the refusal of a new trial. The evidence authorized the verdict.

2. In the only two special grounds of the motion for a new trial, error was assigned upon the failure of the court to give in charge to the jury the law of voluntary manslaughter, and upon a charge expressly stating that manslaughter was not involved. In approving these grounds the judge made the following certificate: “Before I charged the jury, counsel for defendant stated to me that he did not think manslaughter was involved in the case, but that he wished self-defense…