Cone v. State

Bell, Justice.

There is no insistence on the general grounds of the motion for new trial. The amendment to the motion contained six additional grounds, which are insisted on, and will be referred to herein according to the numbering in the amendment.

In ground 1 it is contended that the judge erred in failing to charge the jury on justifiable homicide and voluntary manslaughter. Attached to this ground is a brief of a part of the evidence, in virtue of which it is contended a charge on voluntary manslaughter as related to mutual combat should in any event have been given. There is no merit in…