Case ID: ga-app_36/html/0213-01.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

17695.
    LAWHORN v. THE STATE.
    The charge of the court on manslaughter and the verdict of voluntary manslaughter were authorized by the evidence.
    Homicide, 30 O. J. p. 317, n. 69; p. 410, n. 47.
    Decided December 14, 1926.
    Manslaughter; from Early superior court — Judge Yeomans. October 4, 1936.
    W. I. Geer, for plaintiff in error.
    
      B. T. Castellow, solicitor-general, R. R. Arnold, E. C. Hill, contra.
   Luke, J.

Robert Lawhorn was indicted for murder and was convicted of voluntary manslaughter. The evidence amply authorized the verdict, and the verdict has the approval of the trial judge. The special ground df the motion for a new trial, which complains of an excerpt from the charge of the court upon the law of manslaughter, in view-of the evidence in this case, is wholly without merit. The court properly overruled the motion for a new trial.

Judgment affirmed.

Broyles, C. J., concurs. Bloodworth, J., absent on account of illness.