Case ID: ga-app_37/html/0379-01.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

18410.
    Bryant v. The State.
    Homicide, 30 O. J. p. 316, n. 68; p. 368, n. 12, 19; p. 406, n. 17; p. 408, n. 30.
    Decided November 16, 1927.
    Manslaughter; from Appling superior court—Judge Strange presiding. June 23, 1927.
    Application for certiorari was made to the Supreme Court.
    
      J. B. Moore, J. P. Highsmilh, for plaintiff in error.
    
      W. B. Gibbs, solicilor-general, contra.
   Broyles, C. J.

1. Under the facts of the case as disclosed by the record, the instructions of the court upon the law of voluntary manslaughter and conspiracy were' authorized, and were not erroneous for any reason assigned.

2. The theory that the accused shot and killed the deceased in defense of his (the accused’s) son was raised solely by the statement of the accused to the jury, and, in the absence of a timely and appropriate written request, the failure of the court to instruct the jury that if they found that the deceased was killed by the defendant in defense of his son the killing would be justifiable was not error.

3. The other grounds of the amendment to the motion for a new trial show no cause for a reversal of the judgment below.

4. The verdict was amply authorized by the evidence.

Judgment affirmed.

Luke and Blood-worth, JJ., concur.