JONES v. STATE

52165.

138 Ga. App. 828 (1976)

227 S.E.2d 519

JONES v. THE STATE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided May 28, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bowen & Ferguson, Charles M. Ferguson, A. Delbert Bowen, for appellant.

John R. Irwin, District Attorney, for appellee.


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...

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