Case Name: Francis v. The State
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1944-04-20
Citations: 71 Ga. App. 43
Docket Number: 30427
Parties: Francis v. The State.
Judges: MacIntyre and Gardner, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 71
Pages: 43–44

Head Matter:
30427.
Francis v. The State.

Opinion:
Broyles, C. J.
1. "It is well settled by repeated rulings of the Supreme Court and this court that on a trial for murder, if there is anything dedueible from the evidence or the defendant's statement that would tend to show manslaughter, voluntary or involuntary, it is the duty of the court to instruct the jury fully on the law of manslaughter." Cain v. State, 7 Ga. App. 24 (65 S. E. 1069); Crawford v. State, 12 Ga. 142 (6); Jaakson v. State, 76 Ga. 473; Bell v. State, 130 Ga. 865 (61 S. E. 996); Reeves v. State, 22 Ga. App. 628 (97 S. E. 115); May v. State, 24 Ga. App. 379, 382 (100 S. E. 797).
2. Applying the ruling made in the preceding headnote to the facts of this case, the charging of the law of voluntary manslaughter was not error, there being some evidence tending to show, and authorizing the jury to find, that the defendant and the deceased were engaged in mutual combat at the time of the killing.
Decided April 20, 1944.
Hardwick & Averell, I. L. Evans, for plaintiff in error.
W. H. Lanier, solicitor-general, contra.
3. The verdict was authorized by the evidence.
Judgment affirmed.
MacIntyre and Gardner, JJ., concur.