Opinion ID: 1293176
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 7

Heading: Requested Charge to Jury

Text: In enumeration of error No. 6, appellant contends the trial court erred in its refusal to give to the jury instructions requested by appellant at trial. The first requested instruction was on voluntary manslaughter. Appellant stated in his confession that he shot the victim to rob him, but at the trial appellant testified he did not shoot the victim. Under either theory there is no evidence to authorize a charge on voluntary manslaughter. Meadows v. State, 230 Ga. 471 (197 SE2d 698) (1973). The second, third and fourth requested instructions dealt with insanity and delusional compulsion. There was some evidence indicating that the appellant suffered from epilepsy. In his pre-trial confession, the appellant makes no mention of seizures. At the trial appellant testified that he had a hangover, and someone gave him a cigarette with marijuana in it. When the cab driver asked him why he was so nervous, he said, I just told him about that epileptic I had. ... I told the taxi driver to take me home, I think I going to have a seizure, he said okay. He did not testify that he in fact had a seizure and appellant testified that he remembered a shot being fired but denied that he was the one who shot the cab driver. Appellant's defense at trial was not based on insanity but one of denial of guilt. Under these circumstances, where the evidence did not raise these issues during the trial, it was not error for the trial court to decline to charge on them. See Pass v. State, 227 Ga. 730, 739 (182 SE2d 779) (1971); Cash v. State, 224 Ga. 798 (164 SE2d 558) (1968); Garrett v. State, 126 Ga. App. 83 (189 SE2d 860) (1972). See Graham v. State, 236 Ga. 378 (1976), on delusional compulsion. In his final enumeration of error, appellant urges that the trial court erred in failing to rule that the new Georgia statute authorizing the jury to impose the death penalty under standards prescribed by the statute is unconstitutional. The Georgia Death Penalty Statute was upheld by this court against a similar constitutional attack in Coley v. State, 231 Ga. 829 (204 SE2d 612) (1974) and other attacks on the constitutionality of the Act were rejected by this court in subsequent cases. Moore v. State, 233 Ga. 861 (213 SE2d 829) (1975); Ross v. State, 233 Ga. 361 (211 SE2d 356) (1974); Floyd v. State, 233 Ga. 280, 284 (210 SE2d 810) (1974); McCorquodale v. State, 233 Ga. 369 (11) (211 SE2d 577) (1974); Hooks v. State, 233 Ga. 149 (3) (210 SE2d 668) (1974); House v. State, 232 Ga. 140 (205 SE2d 217) (1974); and, Dobbs v. State, 236 Ga. 427, supra. We adhere to those rulings in this case.