Carden v. State

HARPER, Judge.

In this case under an indictment charging murder appellant was tried for manslaughter. He was convicted and sentenced to four years confinement in the penitentiary.

1. The appellant presents but two questions in the record. One, that the court erred in his charge on manslaughter, in that the court instructed the jury that if appellant “in a sudden transport of passion aroused by adequate cause, as the same has been hereinbefore explained, and not accidentally, and not in defense of himself against an unlawful attach,” etc., he would be guilty of manslaughter. The contention being…