Shields v. State

The accused was indicted for the murder of one 'Jordan, and was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter. He made a motion for a new trial, which the court overruled, and he excepted. It is not necessary to discuss any of the grounds of the motion, except perhaps the 5th, which complains of an excerpt from the charge of the court, in which the judge instructed the jury as to the circumstances under which a man would have.a right to kill another to prevent an act of adultery with his wife. It will be noted that, as the judge says in the note appended to this ground, he was presenting to the jury…