Daniels v. State

Hall, Judge.

The defendant was indicted for murder and convicted of voluntary manslaughter and received a sentence of sixteen years. On appeal the defendant enumerates as error the trial court’s failure to instruct the jury on the law of involuntary manslaughter.

Argued July 6, 1966 Decided September 6, 1966. Pritchard & Thomas, M. C. Pritchard, for appellant. Dewey Hayes, Solicitor General, Delmar Minchew, for appellee.

1. The testimony of witnesses presented by the defendant and the defendant’s unsworn statement showed that the gun fired accidentally while the defendant was passing it to the…