Hill v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for murder. Before Judge Kent. Pulaski superior court.' March 31, 1917.
1Opinion of the CourtFish, C. J.
1, 2. The rulings announced in the first and second headnotes do not require elaboration.
3. One ground of the motion for a new trial is: “Because the judge in the trial of said case failed to charge the jury upon the principle of law in regard to voluntary manslaughter, as set out in section 65 of the Penal Code, although the evidence adduced upon the trial of said case involved the possible finding by the jury of voluntary manslaughter.” To this ground the judge appended the following note: “The reason the court failed to charge as complained of was, that the law was not involved, and that…
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