Moore v. State

Hawkins, Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) Since all the grounds of the amended motion for a new trial deal with the same subject-matter, the rules of law applicable to an illegal arrest and the right of the one sought to be arrested to resist the same, the duty of officers to give notice of their official capacity and that an arrest is intended, and that under these rules and the evidence in this case the defendant could not have been legally convicted of any greater crime than that of voluntary manslaughter, these grounds will be considered together.

While the requests to charge…