HUDSON v. STATE

55760.

146 Ga. App. 463 (1978)

246 S.E.2d 470

HUDSON v. THE STATE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided June 29, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Galin & Friedman, Stanley H. Friedman, for appellant.

Andrew J. Ryan, III, District Attorney, Kenneth R. Fielder, Robert M. Hitch, III, Assistant District Attorneys, for appellee.


SMITH, Judge.

The appellant, indicted for murder but convicted of voluntary manslaughter, contends on appeal that the trial court erred in refusing his requested charge on involuntary manslaughter. We disagree and affirm.

The trial court's refusal to deliver the requested involuntary manslaughter charge was not error. The appellant admitted having fired the shots which killed the victim, but he claimed to have done so in self-defense. Involuntary manslaughter...

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