Bell v. State

Evans, Judge.

The defendant was indicted for murder. He was thereafter tried and convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and sentenced to serve 20 years. He appeals from the judgment and sentence. Error is enumerated on the following: 1. The trial judge failed to correctly charge the jury as to defendant’s contentions that on other occasions he had been threatened by deceased, and was in fear of bodily harm and feared for his life; 2. The trial judge should not have charged the jury in regard to voluntary manslaughter, as under no theory of the evidence or defendant’s statement could a verdict…