Fargerson v. State

1. There being evidence from which the jury would have been authorized to infer that the defendant shot the deceased while in a passion provoked solely by the words, threats, and menaces of the deceased, the judge, as a part of his instructions, properly charged the jury that “the law expressly says that a provocation by words, threats, menaces, or contemptuous gestures shall in no ease reduce the homicide from murder to a lower degree of homicide denominated voluntary manslaughter; in other words, if the homicide is caused by a passion that is caused by a provocation of this character, by…