Riggins v. State

Eddie Lee Riggins was indicted and tried for the offense of murder by shooting Brown Smith with a pistol. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, with recommendation to mercy; and he was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. A motion for new. trial'was overruled, and he excepted. To the general grounds of the motion.were added three’special grounds. The first of these is but an elaboration of the general grounds, and will be considered in that connection.

The second special ground is as follows: “Because the court erred in failing to charge the jury upon the principle of the law of voluntary…