Brown v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for murder. Before Judge Kent. Laurens superior court. January 17, 1920.
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, P. J.
1. If the accused had desired a more elaborate statement of the law of self-defense than that submitted to the jury, he should have requested it in writing.
2. “In the trial of one charged with the offense of murder, the failure of the judge to charge upon the law of voluntary manslaughter will be no reason for reversing the judgment, when 'the counsel for the accused, in response to a statement by the judge addressed to him, that he did not think it necessary to charge the law of voluntary manslaughter, replied to the judge in such a manner as to indicate *757that he concurred in this view. A…
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