BANKE, Judge.
The appellant was convicted of voluntary manslaughter. He enumerates as error on appeal the trial court's charge defining the offense. First, he complains that the charge allowed conviction without a finding of intent to kill. The court charged that "if you believe beyond a reasonable doubt ... that the defendant did ... kill ... but that he acted solely as a result of a sudden, violent, and irresistible passion, resulting from a serious provocation...
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