STEVENS v. STATE

18551.

210 Ga. 647 (1954)

82 S.E.2d 227

STEVENS v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided May 19, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. M. Hodges, C. L. Cowart, for plaintiff in error.

B. D. Dubberly, Solicitor-General, Eugene Cook, Attorney-General, Rubye G. Jackson, contra.


HEAD, Justice.

1. In the first amended ground of the motion for new trial it is contended that the court erred in charging the jury, that "Provocation by words, threats, menaces or contemptuous gestures shall in no case be sufficient to free the person killing from the guilt and crime of murder," without calling the attention of the jury to the fact that words, threats, or menaces may justify a killing if the circumstances are such as to arouse the fears of a reasonable...

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