Adkins v. State

Atkinson,

J. 1. The evidence authorized an instruction on the law of voluntary manslaughter.

2. Neither under the evidence nor the statement of the accused was the law of involuntary manslaughter involved in the case.

3. A ground of a motion for a new trial was without merit which alleged that the court erred in m'aking the following statement in the presence of the jury: “I will let-it in to discriminate between murder and voluntary manslaughter,” it nowhere appearing in the motion to what the judge had reference.

4. A ground of a motion for a new trial which did no more than complain that the…