Grimes v. State

1. On the trial o£ one indicted for voluntary manslaughter, the evidence of the State’s witnesses, if believed, made out a case of murder, while the statement of the accused, if all of it were believed, showed the homicide to be justifiable; if, however, part of the statement were believed and the balance disbelieved, the offense committed was voluntary manslaughter. Held, that as the jury are free to give the prisoner’s statement such credence as they think proper and may therefore believe all or a part of it as they see fit, a charge on the law of voluntary manslaughter was proper, and that…