Tiller v. State

1. In the trial of one for assault with intent to murder, where the indictment charged and the proof showed that the defendant cut the prosecutor with a knife, a charge to the jury to the effect that if they believed that, had death resulted from the assault made, the defendant would have been guilty of voluntary manslaughter, they would be authorized to convict the defendant of stabbing, was not erroneous, when considered with the charge of the court given in that immediate connection, as follows: “I charge you that voluntary manslaughter is the intentional killing of a human being by the…