Jones v. State

Marshall, Judge.

Appellant was indicted and tried for murder and convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of another man and was sentenced to twelve years in the penitentiary. His sole enumeration of error on appeal is that the trial judge erred in failing to charge, upon request, involuntary manslaughter under Ga. L. 1968, pp. 1249, 1276 (Code Ann. § 26-1103).

Witnesses for the state testified that on the day of the fatal shooting, the victim and several others were in a cafe in Coleman, Georgia. The appellant walked in and "snatched” a one dollar bill from the victim’s hand.…