Long v. State

The defendant was indicted for murder, and was convicted.of voluntary manslaughter. The evidence authorized the verdict. A part of the defendant’s statement to the jury also authorized it, and the jury had the right to believe that part where she admitted cutting the deceased with a knife, and to disbelieve the other part where she claimed she cut him in self-defense. “It is well settled by numerous rulings of the Supreme Court and of this court that the law of voluntary manslaughter may properly be given in charge to the jury on the trial of one indicted for murder, where, from the evidence…