126 Ga. 560 | Ga. | 1906
(After stating the foregoing facts.) 1-3. The principles of law announced in the first three headnotes need no elaboration.
4. The court did not err, as will at once appear from a careful reading of the evidence, in giving in charge to the jury section 73 of the Penal Code, and in charging the law of voluntary manslaughter. The altercation and difficulty which resulted in the fatal shooting of the deceased began in his house. According to evidence for the State, one of the defendants there had an altercation with a third party. The deceased interfered and said, “If you are going to fuss, you must get out of doors,” to which another one of the defendants replied with an oath, “No, they are not; they are going to fight it out right there. Just move them chairs; I will kill him.” Immediately others of the defendants stabbed the deceased; upon which he turned and went into another room, saying that they had cut him and he was going to get his gun; came out of the room, went out of the house, and, when he got out, armed and prepared for combat. “They [the defendants] were lined up. John Goodin was between some buggies at the edge of the road, and said, cBy God, I aint done nothing to leave-here for.5 And Arthur [Goodin] was next, and Newt [Goodin] was next, and Lander [Landers Goodin] back, and went down to the edge of the porch to the east end; and when we [witness and deceased] got out, we didnT hardly get on the ground, and John Goodin fired, and Tony [the deceased] fired, and then there were several shots fired. . . When
Judgment affirmed.