Case ID: ga_125/html/0740-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Evans, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Devereaux v. The State.
    Argued May 21,
    Decided July 2, 1906.
    Indictment for murder. Before Judge Lewis. Baldwin supe-> rior court. March 7, 1906.
   Evans, J.

Neither under the evidence nor under the statement of the accused could he legally have been convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and therefore the trial judge properly refused to charge the jury as to the law bearing upon this grade of homicide. The State sustained the charge of murder preferred against the accused, and the verdict of guilty was not, as he complains, contrary to law and the evidence.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices 'concur, except Fish, G. J., absent.

C. T. Crawford and Jere M. Moore, for plaintiff in error.

John C. Hart, attorney-general, and Joseph E. Pottle, solicitor-general, contra.