Williams v. State

1. The evidence sustains the verdict.

2. The court did not err in charging the law of voluntary manslaughter as applied both to irresistible passion and mutual combat.

3. The court did not abuse its discretion in refusing a new trial on account of newly discovered evidence.

DECIDED JUNE 3, 1944.

The defendant was tried for murder, and convicted of voluntary manslaughter. He filed an amended motion for a new trial, which was overruled. On this judgment he assigns error. Briefly and substantially the evidence shows: Homer Davis, the deceased, was employed as supervisor on a turpentine place of Mrs.…