Richards v. State

In Taliaferro county plaintiff in error shot his brother Julian, who was carried to Atlanta for an operation and died the next day. An indictment was returned in which the plaintiff in error was charged with murder. After two trials in Taliaferro county (for report of one of these see Richards v. State, 152 Ga. 207, 108 S. E. 800), the venue was changed and the case tried in Wilkes county.' This trial resulted in a verdict of voluntary manslaughter, and the jury fixed the punishment at a minimum of ten years and a maximum of fifteen years. A motion for a new trial was overruled, and the…