Case ID: ga-app_37/html/0503-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Luke, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

18508.
    SAMS v. THE STATE.
    The evidence authorized the charge on voluntary manslaughter and the conviction of that offense.
    Homicide, 30 O. J. p. 406, n. 17.
    Decided December 13, 1927.
    Manslaughter; from Bleckley superior court—Judge Graham. September 17, 1927.
    
      L. A. Whipple, H. B. Goales, for plaintiff in error.
    
      M. H. Boyer, solicitor-general, contra.
   Luke, J.

Grady Sams was' indicted for the offense of murder and convicted of voluntary manslaughter. His motion for a new trial was upon the general grounds, and one special ground which challenged the charge of the court for the reason that the law of voluntary manslaughter was given in charge to the jury. Upon a review of the record it would have been .erroneous for the court to have failed to charge the law of voluntary manslaughter. The defendant’s conviction of this offense was fully authorized, and the court properly overruled his motion for a new trial.

Judgment affirmed.

Broyles, C. J., and Bloodworth, J., concur.