Deilks v. State

The appellant was tried by a jury and found guilty of manslaughter, on an indictment charging him with murder in the first degree. The jury assessed the punishment of appellant at imprisonment in the State prison for twenty years, and, over a motion for a new trial, the court rendered judgment on the verdict.

The reasons urged for a reversal are that the court erred in giving to the jury each of instructions twenty, twenty-one, and twenty-two; that the court erred in re*25fusing to give to the jury each of instructions four, six, and seven, as requested by appellant.

The part of the twentieth…