State v. Thompson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fenner, J.

The defendant was prosecuted for murder, convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to pay a fine of $2000 and to suffer imprisonment in the State penitentiary at hard labor for the term of twenty years. He appeals from the verdict and sentence and relies for their reversal on two bills of exception taken to the refusal of the judge to give two special charges to the|jury as requested by him.

The first special charge is in the following words:

“I charge you that when two parties have had a difficulty, if one of them quits the combat and retreats…