Case ID: ga-app_37/html/0519-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Broyles, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

18526.
    McLendon v. The State.
    Homicide, 30 O. J. p. 452, n. 38.
    Decided December 14, 1927.
    Manslaughter; from Seminole superior court—Judge Yeomans. September 30, 1927.
    
      H. G. Bawls, B. L. Gox, J. T. Goree, W. I. Geer, for plaintiff in error.
    
      B. T. Gastellow, solicitor-general, B. B. Arnold, B. G. Hill, contra.
   Broyles, C. J.

The accused was indicted for the offense of murder and was convicted of voluntary manslaughter. He made a statement to the jury, but introduced no evidence. The uncontradicted evidence adduced by the State demanded a verdict of murder, and the statement of the accused to the jury showed no legal justification for the killing and fully authorized his conviction of murder. Under these facts he will not be heard to complain that he was convicted of a lesser grade of homicide. Lewis v. State, 17 Ga. App. 195 (86 S. E. 413).

Judgment affirmed.

Luke and Bloodworth, JJ., concur.