Speer v. State

1. The evidence amply authorized the instructions on the law of mutual combat and of voluntary manslaughter.

2. In the light of the entire charge to the jury and the facts of the case, the excerpts from the charge complained of show no cause for reversal of the judgment.

3. The evidence, while conflicting, authorized the jury to find that shortly before the homicide the deceased made an assault on the defendant, that they then engaged in mutual combat, that the defendant became en*210raged and procured and encouraged another person, James Wilks, to kill the deceased, that the acts of the defendant…