LINDER v. STATE

49561.

132 Ga. App. 624 (1974)

208 S.E.2d 630

LINDER v. THE STATE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided September 20, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Boatright & Boatright, J. Laddie Boatright, for appellant.

Dewey Hayes, District Attorney, for appellee.


EVANS, Judge.

The defendant was indicted and tried for murder. He was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to serve nine years. Defendant appeals. Held:

1. A person commits voluntary manslaughter when he causes the death of another human being under circumstances which would otherwise be murder, if he acts solely as the result of a sudden, violent and irresistible passion resulting from serious provocation sufficient to excite such passion...

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