Terrill v. State

The principal question to be determined is whether the circuit court in its charge to the jury, in point *278of law, fairly submitted the case to their consideration, and properly denied the several requests of the defendant’s counsel to instruct the jury as to the law of manslaughter in the second, third, and fourth degrees. It was conceded, that the defendant shot and killed Quirk at the time and place alleged in the information, and the contention at the trial was what degree of criminality, if any, on the part of the defendant, ensued in consequence of such killing.

The circumstances were, in…