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COLBERT v. STATE

39134.

250 Ga. 126 (1982)

296 S.E.2d 588

COLBERT v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided October 27, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dan T. Pressley, Sr., for appellant.

V. D. Stockton, District Attorney, W. Brek Barker, Assistant District Attorney, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, Janice G. Hildenbrand, Staff Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

MARSHALL, Justice.

In his appeal from his conviction of murder, for which he received a life sentence, James Doyle Colbert urges as his sole enumerated error the trial judge's failure to charge, without a written request, on involuntary manslaughter.

"[I]n the absence of a written request, failure to charge the lesser included offenses of voluntary or involuntary manslaughter is not error. [Cits.]" Foster v. State...

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