Case ID: ga-app_18/html/0145-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Russell, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

7343.
    Starr v. The State.
    Decided May 19, 1916.
    Indictment for murder — conviction of voluntary manslaughter; from Clayton superior court — Judge Smith. March 11, 1916.
    
      W. Ij. Watterson, Joseph W. & John D. Humphries, for plaintiff in error. George M. Napier, solicitor-general, contra.
   Russell, C. J.

There was no eye-witness to the homicide, and there were some circumstances so strongly indicating a mutual intent to fight, and a mutual combat, as to authorize the instructions of the court upon the subject of voluntary manslaughter, as well as to warrant the verdict of that offense; and the court did not err in overruling the motion for a new trial. Judgment affirmed.