Tuggle v. State

Carley, Judge.

Appellant appeals his conviction for voluntary manslaughter.

1. Appellant’s enumerations of error challenge the trial court’s instructions to the jury on the law of confessions and the court’s subsequent recharge on the law of admissions. A statement given to police by appellant after his arrest, and read into evidence at trial, contained, in pertinent part, the following: “Grady got up and went in the back [of the apartment] and I thought he was going after a gun cause he had threatened me about [Grady’s girl friend] before. I beat him back to the bedroom, he was drunk, and I…