Cotton v. State

Head, Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The court charged the law of murder, the general law relating to voluntary manslaughter, and on justifiable homicide, but error is assigned in the first amended ground of the motion for new trial because, it is contended, the court should have charged the law of voluntary manslaughter as related to mutual combat, or the mutual intent to fight.

The evidence for the State, if credible, establishes that the killing of Nettie Rowe was done by the defendant without justification, alleviation, or mitigation, and that the defendant is guilty of…