McDaniel v. State

1. In a trial for murder, threats by the accused against the deceased, though made a considerable period before the homicide, are admissible in evidence for the State as tending to show malice on the part of the accused; and tEe mere ■omission of tEe trial judge to cEarge tEe jury “as to wEat *68weight they should give to the threats,” or “as to how the jury should regard them 'in their deliberations,” is not cause for a ■ new trial, the more especially when the accused was convicted of voluntary manslaughter only, the verdict thus negativing: any conclusion that the killing was done in malice.

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