Currie v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for murder. Before Judge Hardeman. Toombs superior court. June 18, 1921.
1Opinion of the CourtHill, J.
Lee Currie was tried upon an indictment charging him with murder by shooting Burley Phillips with a certain pistol. A verdict was rendered finding him guilty, and he was sentenced to be hanged. He made a motion for a new trial, which was overruled, and he excepted.
*1791. The first ground of the amended motion complains that the court erred in charging the jury that “When a sudden quarrel arises between two men, and upon that sudden quarrel thus arising the parties, acting under passion or anger, seize their weapons and mutually agree to fight, or if presently they mutually agree to fight, upon a…
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