Williams v. State

Evans,,- J.

The accused was brought to trial on an indictment for murder, and the jury returned a ’ verdict of voluntary manslaughter. He made a motion for a new trial,, and to the judgment overruling this motion he excepts. . ; ■;

■1. One of his complaints is that the coqrt failed to charge the jury as'to the law bearing on the evidence introduced by him as *871to file, character of the deceased; for turbulence and violence, the contention of,.the accused being'tbat in committing, the homicide he'acted under the fear that .his life was ,in danger or that a felony was about to be perpetrated upon…