Wright v. State

Banke, Judge.

The appellant was convicted of voluntary manslaughter. He enumerates as error on appeal the trial court’s charge defining the offense. First, he complains that the charge allowed conviction without a finding of intent to kill. The court charged that "if you believe beyond a reasonable doubt... that the defendant did ... kill. .. but that he acted solely as a result of a sudden, violent, and irresistible passion, resulting from a serious provocation sufficient to excite such passion in a reasonable person, and that there was no intent, and that there was no interval between the…