Salter v. State

The defendant was charged with murder and convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and, his motion for a new trial being overruled, he brings the cáse to this court for review.

The 1st special ground of the motion for a new trial alleges that the court erred in charging the law of voluntary manslaughter. The defendant’s' statement showed “circumstances to justify the excitement of passion, and to exclude all idea of deliberation or malice” (Penal Code, § 65), and “the law of voluntary manslaughter may properly be given- in charge to the jury on the trial of one *14indicted for murder, where, from the…