MURPHY v. STATE

34573.

88 Ga. App. 30 (1953)

75 S.E.2d 844

MURPHY v. THE STATE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided April 11, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. W. Birdsong, Jr., for plaintiff in error.

Wright Lipford, Solicitor-General, contra.


CARLISLE, J.

Under an indictment for murder, the defendant was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to serve from three to five years in the penitentiary. His motion for a new trial, based upon the usual general grounds and one special ground, was overruled and he excepted. In this court he insists solely upon the special ground, which is that "the court erred in its omission to charge the jury that they could be authorized to convict the defendant of...

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