Bacon v. State

1. On the trial of one indicted for murder it is not error to instruct the jury upon the law of voluntary manslaughter, where, from the evidence or from the defendant’s statement to the jury, there is anything deducidle which would tend to show that the defendant was guilty of manslaughter, or which would be sufficient to raise a doubt, however slight, as to whether the homicide was murder or manslaughter. Jackson v. State, 76 Ga. 473; Elders v. State, 24 Ga. App. 279 (100 S. E. 781), and citations; May v. State, 24 Ga. App. 379 (11), 382 (100 S. E. 797).(a) In determining whether the…