State v. Walker

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Nicholls, 0. J.

The defendant, indicted for murder, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to the penitentiary for eight years.' He has appealed. He relies for reversal upon two bills of exception. The first bill is as follows:

“ The District Judge charged the jury as follows:

“It is essential that the excited and angry condition of the party committing the act entitling him to a milder consideration of the law should be superinduced by some insult, provocation or injury which would instantly produce, in the minds of ordinary men situated as the…