Cooper v. State

The court, in its instructions on the law of voluntary manslaughter, defined that grade of homicide in the language of the Code, § 26-1007. Exception is taken to the following language: “Provocation by words, threats, menaces, or contemptuous gestures shall in no case be sufficient to free the person killing from the guilt and crime of murder.” This language is a part of that used in the Code section defining voluntary manslaughter. The exception to this language is, “that it is without qualification or explanation to the effect that though words, threats, menaces, or contemptuous gestures…