Beckman v. State

Bell, Chief Judge.

The defendant, charged with the murder of his wife, was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter. Held:

1. The defendant contends that the trial court erred in charging the jury on the law of voluntary manslaughter and that the verdict was unauthorized as there was a complete lack of evidence of that crime. We agree. There was not a scintilla of evidence to show that the defendant caused the death of his wife acting solely "as the result of a sudden, violent, and irresistible passion resulting from serious provocation sufficient to excite such passion in a reasonable person,”…